A mariner who kills an albatross endures supernatural punishment and learns to bless all living things. Coleridge's haunting ballad of guilt and penance.
Books that mention The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (10)
Quentin Durward by Walter Scott: “the bridal minstrelsy still continued, as in the "Ancient Mariner," to "nod their heads" till morning shone on them.”
The Virginian by Owen Wister: “He called it The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”
The Secret City by Hugh Walpole: “the fixed and glittering eye of the "Ancient Mariner"”
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “Obinze and Ifemelu discuss school poetry: "'What's that last one we did in class, \"Ancient Mariner\"? So boring.'"”
Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt: “Listed as 'The Ancient Mariner' alongside Kubla Khan.”
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “Coleridge's uncanny The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and by Shelley and Keats at their most haunting.”
Italo Calvino by Martin McLaughlin: “a passage in which The Ancient Mariner seems to meet Wuthering Heights”
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk: “for instance, in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner—he is a poet who, rather than telling a story, paints”
Companion Piece by Ali Smith: “A form of it turns up in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a poem about the terrible act and ominous aftermath of the killing of a bird”
The Disappearers by Marlon James: “'That what he singing now?' 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,' Eddy said.”