The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally
The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and
published in 1798 in the first edition of
Lyrical Ballads. Modern editions use a revised version printed in 1817 that featured a
gloss. Along with other poems in
Lyrical Ballads, it was a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British
Romantic literature.