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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Title: Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Release Date: February 15, 2004 [EBook #11101]
Language: English
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EDITED BY
FREDERICK H. SYKES, PH.D.
TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
COLERIDGE'S ANCIENT MARINER AND SELECT POEMS
1908
PREFATORY NOTE
The text of the poems in this volume is that of J. Dykes Campbell in the Globe edition of Coleridge's poems. For the introduction I have depended also largely upon his Memoir of Coleridge, and upon the two volumes of the "Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge," edited by the poet's grandson, Mr. E.H. Coleridge. In the Notes, as will be seen, I am indebted particularly to the general editor of this series, Dr. F.H. Sykes, to Dr. Lane Cooper of Cornell University, and again to Mr. Coleridge, through whose kindness I have been able to get a reproduction of the Marshmills crayon, undoubtedly the most satisfactory portrait of the poet in existence, for the frontisp
Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge