Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems

"Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a collection of poems from the late 1700s to early 1800s, featuring "The Ancient Mariner," as well as other well-known poems such as "Christabel" and "Kubla Khan," all exploring the natural world, the power of the imagination, and what it means to be human, frequently mixed with supernatural events and deep emotional understanding. Beginning with an overview of Coleridge’s life and the world that influenced him, including the French Revolution and other writers, it shows the struggles and events that formed Coleridge’s poetry, like his active imagination and the difficulties he met in school and life, creating a base for the bigger ideas he would examine in his poems, especially "The Ancient Mariner," where a sailor is cursed and the importance of guilt, forgiveness, and how everything is connected are explored.