Episode 249: “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by S. T. Coleridge, Part 2
The Literary Life Podcast
Angelina Stanford
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to The Literary Life podcast and the wrap up of our series on Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Today Angelina and Thomas cover the second half of the poem, beginning with some more discussion about the Romantic poets and what they were trying to do through their work. They talk at some length about the importance of imagination and fantasy in response to the focus on realism and science. After this, Thomas reads aloud some of the most important passages in this section of the poem. Angelina brings up the importance of understanding Deism in relation to Romanticism.
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| 0:00.0 | This is not just another book chat podcast. |
| 0:21.6 | Lifelong reader Cindy Rollins joins teachers Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks for an ongoing conversation about the skill and art of reading well. |
| 0:32.6 | Explore the lost intellectual tradition and discover how to fully enter end to the great works of literature. |
| 0:40.2 | Learn what books mean while delighting in the sheer joy of imagination. Each week, we will rescue |
| 0:47.1 | story from the ivory tower and bring it to your couch, your kitchen, and your commute. The literary life is for everyone because in the |
| 0:55.9 | words of Stratford Caldecott, to be enchanted by story is to be granted a deeper insight into |
| 1:02.2 | reality. Join us for an ever-unfolding discussion of how stories will save the world. |
| 1:09.7 | This is the Literary Life Podcast. |
| 1:13.6 | Welcome back to the Literary Life podcast. |
| 1:31.0 | I'm Angelina Stanford, and here with me is the albatross hung around my neck. |
| 1:36.0 | I know. |
| 1:37.0 | It's a sad fate. |
| 1:39.0 | Well, at least I guess I could have said the wedding guest who's trapped to listen to every tale I will ever tell. |
| 1:45.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:47.5 | I are rereading this and reminded that I think the wedding guests must not be very bright. |
| 1:52.5 | I know that's kind of beside the point to bring that up. |
| 1:55.0 | But, I mean, I think just one adult life lesson that everyone needs to learn is how to get out of an |
| 2:02.9 | uncomfortable conversation, you know, feigning an injury or, you know, like saying, oh, my wife |
| 2:08.2 | just texted me. Yeah, horrible accident, have to run, buy, that kind of thing. Yeah, and none |
| 2:15.4 | of this occurs to the wedding guest, though. He's in trance. Well, he's in trance. I know. I know. Yeah, Mr. Banks getting all the wrong |
| 2:21.7 | lessons from these things. Indeed. Still, still. Yeah. If you're just joining us, this is episode three |
| 2:28.4 | in our series of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner. We'll be wrapping up |
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