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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.eorge Whalley, in his 1946â47 essay, The Mariner and the Albatross, suggests that the Ancient Mariner is an autobiographical portrait of Coleridge himself, comparing the mariner's loneliness with Coleridge's own feelings of loneliness expressed in his letters and journals.