By Catherine Angerson, Curator, Modern Archives and Manuscripts. A small show to mark the 250th<\/sup> anniversary of the beginning of the poet <\/em>Samuel Taylor Coleridge<\/em><\/a> (1772\u20131834) could be seen within the <\/em>Treasures Gallery<\/em><\/a> till 25 September 2022.<\/em><\/p>\n Samuel Taylor Coleridge\u2019s poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner<\/em><\/a> recounts the experiences of a mariner whose ship turns into trapped in ice throughout a protracted voyage. The mariner brings nice misfortune on the ship and its crew by killing the albatross which helped to carry them to security. Coleridge\u2019s melancholy and personal experiences of journey led to his rising identification with the Mariner<\/em> and he continued to revise the poem, first revealed in Lyrical Ballads<\/em><\/a> in 1798, at totally different episodes throughout his life.<\/p>\n A brand new short-term show<\/a> within the Treasures Gallery brings collectively three of Coleridge\u2019s manuscripts (a poem and two notebooks) and two Twentieth-century illustrated editions of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner<\/em> to mark the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the poet.<\/p>\n The Coleridge show within the British Library Treasures Gallery<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The first merchandise on show is a handwritten poem titled ‘Dura Navis’ which Coleridge stated he composed on the age of 15 whereas he was a pupil at Christ\u2019s Hospital in Sussex. The poem reveals the poet\u2019s early preoccupation with the isolation of the traveller and the hazards of travelling by sea. The manuscript is an autograph truthful copy written down by Coleridge a few years after he first composed the poem. A 51-year-old Coleridge added a remark on the backside of the primary web page saying that the poem \u2018does not contain a line that any clever school boy might not have written\u2019 (Add MS 34225<\/a>, f.1r).<\/p>\n S.T. Coleridge, \u2018Dura Navis\u2019, composed 1787; truthful copy round 1823. Add MS 34225, f. 1r.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n At the centre of the small show are two of the 55 of Coleridge\u2019s notebooks bought by the British Museum from the descendants of Coleridge\u2019s brother James in 1951. Coleridge used pocket-sized notebooks to file ideas, emotions, quotations, journey accounts, language studying (particularly German), philosophical musings, poems and extra. Notebook No. 9 (Add MS 47506) comprises Coleridge\u2019s impressions of a voyage to Malta in April 1804. In a quick second of calm within the Bay of Biscay, the poet observes \u2018the beautiful Surface of the Sea in this gentle Breeze\u2019 (f. 33v). A reference to his pal William Wordsworth\u2019s poem The Female Vagrant<\/em> could be seen close to the underside of the web page: \u2018And on the gliding Vessel Heaven & Ocean smil\u2019d!\u2019 (f. 34r)<\/p>\n \u2018And on the gliding Vessel Heaven & Ocean smil\u2019d!\u2019: a reference to Wordsworth in Coleridge\u2019s Notebook No. 9, Add MS 47506, f. 34r.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In October 1806, Coleridge drafted a brand new model of a brief part of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner<\/em><\/a> in his Notebook No. 11 (Add MS 47508). While the opening strains, \u2018With never a whisper in the main \/ Off shot the spectre ship\u2019, are near strains 198\u2013<\/em>199 of the poem revealed in Lyrical Ballads<\/em> in 1798, the next two strains don’t seem within the first or the amended model revealed in 1817:<\/p>\n And stifled phrases & groans of ache Other pictures are altered however recognisable from half III of the poem revealed in Sibylline Leaves<\/em> (1817). \u2018The Sky was dull & dark the Night\u2019 within the 1806 pocket book turns into \u2018The stars were dim, and thick the night\u2019 in 1817.<\/p>\n S.T. Coleridge, manuscript revision of strains from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in Notebook No. 11, 1806, Add MS 47508, f. 5r<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Many artists have been drawn to the artistic power and supernatural imagery of The Ancient Mariner<\/em>. The first illustrated version on show was designed, embellished and illustrated by Hungarian artist Willy Pog\u00e1ny (born Vilmos Andr\u00e1s Pog\u00e1ny, 1882\u20131955) and revealed in 1910. The illustration of the ship struck by a \u2018storm-blast\u2019 is reproduced from Pog\u00e1ny\u2019s watercolour and corresponds to Coleridge\u2019s phrases on the alternative web page. In the poem, the ship is pushed by a storm, \u2018tyrannous and strong\u2019, in direction of the South Pole. Pog\u00e1ny\u2019s storm has a suggestion of wings just like the winged storm which chases the ship within the poem.<\/p>\n S.T. Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: in seven elements; offered by Willy Pog\u00e1ny. London: G.G. Harrap & Co., 1910. Ok.T.C.40.b.13.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The show concludes with Mervyn Peake\u2019s stark picture of a struggling and repentant Mariner in an version revealed by Chatto & Windus in 1943. In distinction to Pog\u00e1ny\u2019s deluxe version printed on vellum, this version with seven black-and-white illustrations reproduced from Peake\u2019s drawings was designed to be inexpensive. In Coleridge\u2019s poem, the crew hangs the albatross across the Mariner\u2019s neck to mark his guilt for killing the fowl of fine omen. Peake\u2019s picture hints at the opportunity of redemption for the Mariner.<\/p>\n Illustration by Mervyn Peake, in S.T. Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. London: Chatto & Windus, 1943. 11657.dd.18.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Coleridge show<\/a> on the British Library (till 25 September) overlaps by a number of weeks with the mortgage of the manuscript of Coleridge\u2019s different well-known poem, Kubla Kahn<\/a>, and a 1798 version of Lyrical Ballads<\/em> to the Museum of Somerset for the exhibition In Xanadu: Coleridge and the West Country<\/a> (till 25 June). The anniversary can also be being marked on the British Library on 20 October with the Wordsworth Trust annual lecture by famend Coleridge biographer Richard Holmes. Tickets shall be out there from mid-August.<\/p>\n Further studying<\/u><\/p>\n Kathleen Coburn, Merton Christensen and Anthony John Harding, eds, The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge<\/em>, 5 vols (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957\u20132002)<\/p>\n Seamus Perry, ed., Coleridge’s Notebooks: A Selection<\/em> (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] By Catherine Angerson, Curator, Modern Archives and Manuscripts. A small show to mark the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772\u20131834) could be seen within the Treasures Gallery till 25 September 2022. 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