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| | The Literary Gothic | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
 | | Poet, critic, lecturer, Unitarian minister, moralizer, world-class talker, friend of William Wordsworth, and one of the most canonical (for what that's worth) figures of the British Romantic period, Coleridge (or STC, as he often referred to himself) is the "major" Romantic figure most associated with the Gothic, both now and in his lifetime. |
 | | This is due largely to the popularity of his so-called "mystery poems": "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Kubla Khan," and "Christabel," poems which were responsible for much of STC's popular fame in his time and which remain wonderful "Gothic" poems today. |
 | | A consideration of the parodic and satiric possibilities of the "Ancient Mariner," including an assertion of STC's own subsequent "parodic" and ironic stance relative to the text of the poem. |
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