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Author QuotedSamuel Taylor Coleridge
Title QuotedRime of the Ancient Mariner
Date (Year/Month/Day)1941/10/10
Imprint[S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1798
QuotationColeridge sometimes gets up to the heights of real myth,too. Keats, seldom. Coleridge, like a surrealist, describes the content of his own imagination and the result is good because the content of his imagination is interesting in itself (Kubla Khan and Ancient Mariner, anyway).
Quotation SourceRun to the mountain: The Story of a Vocation. The journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 1, 1939-1941.; Edited by Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1995, p. 435
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