Welcome to Classical Stuff, a show with no fluff, where we, gentlemen three, meet to talk with thee of rhymes, ancient and alas my rhymes are few hello welcome to classical stuff

in light of today's topic i just wrote that took me like ten seconds does that

sounds like it

unfortunately you did not have grand doing your introduction who I believe writes like sonnets in 30 seconds so I thought it was lovely thank you AJ for being supportive unlike some people on this podcast I'm talking about myself not Graham to be clear we are talking about the rhyme of the ancient mariner my name is Thomas Magby I'm joined as always by Kermudgeon himself, Graham Donaldson.

I feel bad.

I'm sorry, Thomas.

Yeah, as you should.

And the pleasant, joyful core of this podcast, AJ Hanenberg.

The hard and soul of podcast.

The heart and soul as ought to be.

My rhyme is bad, but I hear Coleridge's is not.

So, AJ, what are we talking about today? Today we are talking about Samuel Taylor

Coleridge and his poem, The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner. And it's one of those rare episodes where

we can actually give you the entire thing we are studying. I can actually teach you the thing,

right? Not just sort of summarize it for you, but you get to hear the poem in its entirety. And

then we'll talk about it. And I will also talk a little bit about Taylor, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. So what should I do first? The history of the guy? Let's talk

about the guy. Let's do some STC. Let's do some history. Good old Coleridge of the guy. So he was

born the 21st of October in 1772 in Autory St. Mary in Devon, England. His dad was Reverend John Coleridge, a vicar of St. Mary's,

headmaster of the King's School, which was a free grammar school established by King Henry

the 8th. Sammy was the youngest of 10 by Reverend Coleridge by his second wife, plus three by his

first wife. Wow. So the youngest of 13, that is a dang lot of kids.

As a youngster, he took no pleasure in boyish sports,

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