The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (In Our Time)
1798 · Resource
In this 900th edition of the programme, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the best known and most influential of the poems of the Romantic movement. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in 1798 after discussions with his friend Wordsworth. He refined it for the rest of his life, and it came to define him, a foreshado
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- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- Industrial Revolution ends (1840)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)