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‘Supernatural, Or At Least Romantic': The Ancient Mariner And Parody, Steven Jones
‘Supernatural, Or At Least Romantic': The Ancient Mariner And Parody, Steven Jones
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
This essay looks through the lens of parody at one of Coleridge's most characteristically "romantic" works, his famous ballad of the supernatural, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Along with the other so-called "Mystery Poems"—"Christabel" and "Kubla Khan"—this is among his most significant generic contributions to the developing idea of Romanticism, the kind of work that comes through a kind of synecdoche to stand for the whole movement as it was conceived.