James, I: Source of the "Ancient Mariner" (Classic Reprint)

Anglický jazyk

James, I: Source of the "Ancient Mariner" (Classic Reprint)

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Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9781333263089

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Excerpt from The Source of the "Ancient Mariner"

Quincey assured his readers that he had dis covered the germ of The Ancient Mariner in the story of the shooting of the albatross in Shelvooke'a voyages. For proof he referred to Wordsworth, a 'mau of stern veracity, who, we are told, had declared to De Quincey 'xt was notorious that Coleridge had derived fromthe very passage cited the original hint for the action of the poem. Could it have been imagined, asks De Quincey somewhat sarcas tically, that Coleridge would see cause utterly to disown so slight an obligation to Shelvocke r Coleridge, it seems, had been saying some unpleasant things about De Quincey, who, not unnaturally, perhaps, in the circumstances, was glad of an oppor tunity, as he thought at the time, to give his ungrateful friend a slap in return. Coleridge, who disowned Shelvooke, kept from De Quincey all knowledge of the source of the poem. It may have been his desire to hide the source altogether.

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