Did Coleridge See His Own Future in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”?

Oxford World's Classics

When Samuel Taylor Coleridge was not quite nine years old his father died. He became eligible for a place in the great London charity school, Christ's Hospital, to which he was sent a year later. From there he went to Jesus College, Cambridge, but at the end of 1793, during his third year, he ran away and joined the army under an assumed name, Silas Tomkyn Comberbache.

"Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony."

The Paris Review

Proof that poets are time travelers: Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s grim prognosticating in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”

Did Coleridge See His Own Future in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”?

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