The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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An old sailor stops a wedding guest to tell how killing an albatross brought a curse of thirst, death, and ghostly crewmen. Coleridge's 1798 ballad is the great supernatural poem of English Romanticism.

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