Samuel Taylor Coleridge Audio

This perfect poetry companion brings the words of the world's favorite poets to life. Hearing poetry spoken - as it was originally intended to be heard...

Adopting the methodology of the music charts, The Classic Fifty Poems presents the "top 50" poems of all time...

Here are some of the finest narrative poems in the English language, dating from an age of rich inspiration: the 19th century. All tell powerful stories of human passion and endeavor...

Hollywood actor Michael Sheen reads one of the most famous poems in the English language, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in this collection, which is part of the Naxos AudioBooks' 'The Great Poets' series.

“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree “

“The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone: He cannot chuse but hear;... “

For killing an albatross, the mariner and his crew are punished with drought and death.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797-98 and published in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads in 1798.

Evocative, emotional, imaginative, personal, and powerful, these poems revolutionized the art form and still move and inspire us today.