who wrote the rime of the ancient mariner and what was this narrative poem about
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 1797â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.or the film (1975), see Rime of the Ancient Mariner (film) .