Captain Cook's voyages and Coleridge's 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner'.
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Authors
Strongman, L.
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Literature
Poetry
Poetry
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Issue Date
2009
Peer-reviewed status
Type
Journal Article
Language
en
Abstract
This article suggests that the familiar four-step account of the ballad�s creation � that the idea arose through a suggestion to Coleridge from William Wordsworth following the relation to Coleridge of an unusual dream of his friend, John Cruikshank, and was inspired by Coleridge�s reading of the journal of George Shelvocke and the conversational influence of William Wales (an astronomer and meteorologist on board Cook�s Resolution in 1772) upon Coleridge as a schoolboy � is in fact a partial account.
Citation
Strongman, L. (2009). Captain Cook's voyages and Coleridge's 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue, 12, 69- 81.