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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"rime of the ancient mariner"”.
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"Myself I found" : a Jungian reading of Coleridge's The Rime of the ancient mariner
<p>The Rime of the Ancient Mariner<sup>1</sup> is essentially a poem of survival through transformation, one which, according to William Walsh, 'has to do equally with man's capacity for failure and with that which makes available to him resources for recovery."<sup>2</sup> It is also. as Richard …
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'All This 'Pother About a Bird': Consciousness and Conscience in The Rime of The Ancient Mariner by S.T.Coleridge
This PhD consists of a novel entitled Shooting the Albatross and a thesis entitled 'All This ‘Pother About a Bird': Consciousness and Conscience in The Rime of The Ancient Mariner by S.T.Coleridge. The novel is an interpretation of The Rime of The Ancient Mariner in the context of the poem’s …
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The fiends that plague thee thus: An examination of gender and the role it plays in Coleridge’s <i>Rime of the Ancient Mariner</i>
… Taylor Coleridge was, and remains today, one of the most important literary figures in history, and his poem <i>The Rime of the Ancient Mariner </i>continues to be one of the most widely read pieces of literature in schools across the world. When it was first published, the poem was ahead of …
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Shaping Spirits, or, Imagination and "Abstruse Research": the perils of metaphysics and Coleridge's loss of form in the years of his philosophical accomplishment
The mystical nature of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poems, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Christabel' and 'Kubla Khan' has intrigued readers for over two centuries. Of these full poems only the "Rime" is complete and yet they all still enjoy the scrutiny of a wide audience. This thesis examines …
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Towards an Ecotheological Imagination: A Study in the Prose and Poetry of S.T. Coleridge, C.S. Lewis, and Wendell Berry
Focusing on the conceptions of imagination in both the analytic prose and poetry of S.T. Coleridge, C.S. Lewis, and Wendell Berry, the argument of my thesis is for two related elements. First, I argue that Lewis and Berry stand within a Coleridgean heritage regarding their conceptions of …
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‘The balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities‘: political tensions and religious transitions in the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
My thesis considers the profound effect of the all-pervading late Eighteenth-Century revolutionary climate on the evolving religious and political views of the young Coleridge, and their expression through his published works from 1794-1800. I consider how Coleridge‘s continuing use of religious …
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The supernatural as rhetorical focus in the three major poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Kubla Khan," and "Christabel" demonstrate his serious and imaginative use of the hackneyed motifs of the supernatural. The eerie, the exotic, the nocturnal, and the medieval dominate the setting of these poems; superstitions, spells, and …
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Communication with the Other World in Romantic Poetry
From the godly Cynthia in Keats’s *Endymion* to the Polar Spirit and his fellow demons in Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, from P.B. Shelley’s fairy in ‘Queen Mab’ to Francesca’s ghost in Byron’s ‘The Siege of Corinth’, Romantic poetry is populated – or rather haunted – by …