Taylor Coleridge – Samuel Taylor Coleridge and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Taylor_Coleridge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43997/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-text-of-1834
Taylor Coleridge is a former pirate captain from faraway Skull Island. Much of his dialogue and many of the quest titles are references to lines from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s epic poem, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”
Taylor Coleridge helps your wizard tame the beast and cross the Starfall Sea.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.
He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on William Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking cultures. Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases, including “suspension of disbelief”. He had a major influence on Ralph Waldo Emerson and American transcendentalism.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–1798 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads. Some modern editions use a revised version printed in 1817 that featured a gloss. Along with other poems in Lyrical Ballads, it is often considered a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner recounts the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage. The mariner stops a man who is on his way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story. The Wedding-Guest’s reaction turns from bemusement to impatience to fear to fascination as the mariner’s story progresses, as can be seen in the language style: Coleridge uses narrative techniques such as personification and repetition to create a sense of danger, the supernatural, or serenity, depending on the mood in different parts of the poem.
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