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English poet and critic, co-author of Lyrical Ballads, associated with Romanticism.

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Narrative Poems: ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And Coleridge is very clever, isn't he?

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Narrative Poems: ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

of Coleridge's own charismatic conversational powers.

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Narrative Poems: ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

into his own creations with quite the kind of intensity and vitality and individuality and idiosyncrasy that Coleridge's manages.

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Narrative Poems: ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

So the Mariner figure who's getting up to tell his story is one who then channels Coleridge's own prodigious reading.

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Narrative Poems: ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As far as I can tell, the only time Coleridge had been in a boat by the time he wrote this was going across from Chepstow to...

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Narrative Poems: ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Of Coleridge's own amazing, compelling capacity to talk.

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Narrative Poems: ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

plugging them straight away, I guess, into the myth of Coleridge himself as a fallen archangel, that you talked about his wonderfulness, that he could talk for 24 hours, more or less, without stopping, and everyone was entranced, but he also did wear them out, and he caused some collateral damage in the process as well, so that he was brilliant, but also impossible.