On this day in 1798...
 

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:47:05 -0500 (EST), "Harry Krause"
wrote:

...Samuel Taylor Coleridge read his poem, "The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner," to William Wordsworth.

If you haven't read "The Rime," I recommend it. It is on-topic for this
newsgroup.

Hmmmm - how so?

The "Ancient Mariner" was basically a concordant theme of never ending
redemption - concordant in that it is part of a series of set pieces
in which tales are told as moral lessons: the Mariner forced to tell
the tale whenever the angst of error becomes too heavy to bear. The
story is akin to stories developed with the "wanderer" theme - doomed
to wander the earth telling a moralistic tale which never absolves the
sin of the teller.

Frankly, "The Ancient Mariner", while a classic piece of literature,
isn't as good or as instructive as "Kubla Khan".

And if I may, Monsarrat did it much better with "The Master Mariner".

Later,

Tom
S. Woodstock, CT
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"Angling may be said to be so
like the mathematics that it
can never be fully learnt..."

Izaak Walton "The Compleat Angler", 1653