The Coleridgean Moral of the Ancient Mariner
Today, two hundred and thirty-five years after the ratification of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and two hundred and twenty-seven years since the publication of Mrs Anna Lætitia Barbauld’s poem ‘To Mr S.T. Coleridge’, when she reproached him that the Ancient Mariner had no moral, I am going to respect her opinion, but I am also entitled to…

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