Lot Essay
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EDMUND BLUNDEN (1896-1974)
'An Appreciation' [of Coleridge's 'The Ancient Mariner'], 11pp. manuscript essay on parchment, signed, addressed Cleave's, Yalding, Kent, a fair copy but with several manuscript corrections, with later inscription 'for Cheshire House, N. York Edition of Ancient Mariner'. Blunden traces the genesis of Coleridge's poem to the contemporary fascination with the Gothic and the success of Chatterton and Monk Lewis. He draws a parallel between the ancient mariner's experience and that of soldiers on the Western front to indicate the continuing figurative power of the poem: 'It still lives on, free and unobscured and there is no sign that its fascination for all sorts of responsiveness is fading ...'
'An Appreciation' [of Coleridge's 'The Ancient Mariner'], 11pp. manuscript essay on parchment, signed, addressed Cleave's, Yalding, Kent, a fair copy but with several manuscript corrections, with later inscription 'for Cheshire House, N. York Edition of Ancient Mariner'. Blunden traces the genesis of Coleridge's poem to the contemporary fascination with the Gothic and the success of Chatterton and Monk Lewis. He draws a parallel between the ancient mariner's experience and that of soldiers on the Western front to indicate the continuing figurative power of the poem: 'It still lives on, free and unobscured and there is no sign that its fascination for all sorts of responsiveness is fading ...'