ancient-mariner-rime

Jekyll website for the Analyzing the Rime of the Ancient Mariner Project @ Boston College

By Catherine Enwright, Boston College

About

This site considers The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which is a seminal poem for British Romanticism, through the eyes of three interlocutors, listed below:

1. The engravings of Gustav Dore, which lend themselves to an interpretation of the poem that emphasizes a dark and Romantic focus on nature and natural spirits, but ultimately points towards a Christian interpretation of the poem as a journey of redemption
2. John Livingstone Lowe’s mammoth 1927 commentary on Coleridge titled The Road to Xanadu, which meticulously traces Coleridge’s textual sources for The Rime and in doing so, concludes that the poem ultimately stands with no moral save as a testament to the power of the imagination
3. The 1963 commentary on The Rime by David Jones, which agrees with Dore as to the ultimately Christian nature of the poem’s message, but which expands the interpretation of The Rime to reflect Jones’ own specifically Catholic preoccupations with Mary as a force in the poem and the Church or soul as a ship captained by Christ

Local Development

• Follow this guide to install Ruby and Jekyll
• Install Node
• git clone this repo and then cd inside the directory
• Comment out the url and baseurl lines of _config.yml when working locally
• Install Ruby dependencies by running bundle install
• Install Node dependencies by running npm install
• Run the server with bundle exec jekyll serve

Acknowledgements

Jekyll & Tailwind Setup based on TailPages by Harry Wang (Chinese: 王建楠)