Coleridge’s narrative poetry asks readers to hear a speaker within a story. Follow the mariner’s experience and its effect on his listener before extracting a final statement as detached advice.
The Poetry Foundation describes Coleridge as both a poet and a critic and gives his lifetime as 1772–1834. Its discussion places literary imagination and the relationship with Wordsworth among the concerns of his career. This profile uses that account as life and writing context, without equating biography with every narrative voice. The linked Lyrical Ballads volume belongs to their joint project; the two authors retain separate archive identities and separate selected poems.
The selected prayer-and-love passages appear near the end of The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere in the linked 1798 text. Both selected English extracts match under limited punctuation, spacing and case comparison. The second continues into two further lines about God, while the narrative then returns to the wedding guest’s changed state. Reading the address and its aftermath together keeps the statements inside the religious and dramatic setting of the poem. The profile neither rewrites the anthology nor treats a short matching extract as verification of every associated record.
Begin near the conclusion of The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, but continue beyond both selected extracts: the next lines and the wedding guest’s response are part of their setting. Both excerpts match under limited English normalization. Read the wider account of the mariner’s actions and experience before turning his words into a universal maxim. This link preserves the anthology wording and does not establish the exact edition its compiler used.
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Original agent-assisted editorial profile, checked 2026-10-05. No human review is recorded. Life dates are recorded to the year; they do not date individual quotations.
Limited original factual paraphrase and separately documented lifetime context; modern biography text/images are not copied. No whole-associated-corpus authentication. Reference checked 2026-10-05.
English transcription of the 1798 London title-page edition, printed for J. & A. Arch; Project Gutenberg eBook 9622, released 2006 and updated 2021. This is distinct from the expanded 1800 collection.
Related work by the same author; the linked edition is separate from the anthology source.