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Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems

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2018
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60, 12—*trim skiffs*, etc. Fulton had invented the steamboat in 1807. The first regular steamboat in British waters was built in 1812.

61, 34—*altered size*. Coleridge became very stout in his later years.

WORK WITHOUT HOPE

62, 5—*the sole unbusy thing*. Cf. George Herbert's "Employment:"

"All things are busie; onely I
Neither bring hony with the bees,
Nor flowers to make that, nor the husbandrie
To water these."

"I find more substantial comfort now," wrote Coleridge to his friend Collins in 1818, "in pious George Herbert's 'Temple,' which I used to read to amuse myself with his quaintness, in short, only to laugh at, than in all the poetry since Milton."

notes

1

"Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge," ed. by E.H.

Coleridge, Vol. I., p. 180, note.

2

The uncertainty as to the color of his eyes is a tribute to their expressiveness. Carlyle described him in 1824 as having "a pair of strange brown, timid, yet earnest-looking eyes." Emerson visited him in 1833 and found him "with bright blue eyes and fine clear complexion."

3

From the lines addressed to Wordsworth after hearing him read "The Prelude," in 1807.

4

See notes to this poem in the Globe edition, and E.H.

Coleridge's "Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge," Vol. I, p. 245, note.

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