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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

by David Jones (Author), David Jones (Author), Thomas Dilworth (Editor)

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    Illustrated 2005

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Synopsis

The artist and poet David Jones (1895-1974) considered The Rime of the Ancient Mariner to be one of the great achievements of English poetry, and not only great but unique. In 1929 Jones made ten copper engravings for a limited edition of Coleridge's poem, which was immediately acclaimed as the best illustrated version of the poem and among the most perfect partnerships between author and illustrator in modern times. This new edition the first in an accessible and affordable format is prefaced by Jones's engrossing and beautifully written Introduction. Also included is an afterword by Thomas Dilworth, with twenty-eight illustrations, discussing the biographical context of the engravings, interpreting them, and illuminating an aspect of the form of the poem which may have influenced the engravings. Individually, the engravings are symbolically powerful and aesthetically compelling. Cumulatively, they achieve an overall unifying structure unparalleled in the history of art.

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More Information

Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 80
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: Enitharmon Press
Published: 18 Sep 2005
ISBN 10: 1904634141
ISBN 13: 9781904634140

Media Reviews
The lost modernist, David Jones, a man whose allusive obscurity won him fans like Eliot and Auden.
Author Bio
David Jones (1895-1974) was born in Kent to an English mother and Welsh father. He is equally renowned as a poet and an artist. His first poem was In Parenthesis (1937), an epic based on his experience in the first world war trenches. He then wrote The Anathemata (1952), a symbolic anatomy of western culture, which W.H. Auden regarded as the best long poem in English of the twentieth century. After its publication T.S. Eliot who had called In Parenthesis a work of genius included Jones in the exclusive company of great literary modernists consisting of himself, Pound and Joyce.