ABOUT THE WEBSITE
There are six main sections to this website:
(1) Background to the poem; these may be read before or after the poem itself, but assume a knowledge of the poem
(i) Genesis of the poem
(ii) Sources of the story
(iii) The route of the voyage
(iv) The date of the voyage
(v) The Albatross
(including information about saving the albatross from extinction)
(vi) The Ancient Mariner and Lyrical Ballads
(vii ) The various versions of the text
(2) Reading Texts of the poem
(i) read this page first
(ii) 1798 reading text with notes
(iii) 1834 reading text with notes
(3) Changes in the text of the poem (pdf files for download)
(i) Changes from 1798 to 1800
(ii) Changes from 1800 to 1817
(iii) Changes from 1817 to 1834
(iv) Changes from 1798 to 1834 (consolidated)
(4) Picture Gallery of illustrators and illustrations
(5) Acknowledgements
(6) Links to external sites of relevance
Note: throughout these webpages, the sign
means
“next in the current series of pages”, the sign
means
“previous in the current series of pages”, the sign
means
“back to this index page”.
This website was developed by John Dobson.
site last updated 14 March 2019