The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, written by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, is a poem that recounts the experiences of a
The Mariner up on the mast in a storm. One of the wood-engraved illustrations by Gustave Doré of the poem.
Frontispiece by William Strang for a 1903 edition of Coleridge's poem.
Engraving by Gustave Doré for an 1876 edition of the poem. The Albatross depicts 17 sailors on the deck of a wooden ship facing an albatross. Icicles hang from the rigging.
"The Albatross about my Neck was Hung", etching by William Strang, published 1896
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A gloss is a brief notation, especially a marginal or interlinear one, of the meaning of a word or wording in a text. It may be in the language of the text or in the reader's language if that is diffe
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
…recounts the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage. Some modern editions use a revised version printed in 1817 that featured a gloss. The poem tells of the mariner stopping a man who is on his way to a wedding ceremony so that the mariner can share his story. The Wedding-Guest's…
A gloss is a notation regarding the main text in a document. Shown is a parchment page from the Royal Library of Copenhagen.
The Glosas Emilianenses are glosses added to this Latin codex that are now considered the first phrases written in the Castilian language.
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