Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere" was the first poem printed in the first edition of the history-of-English-poetry-altering collection Lyrical Ballads (1st ed., 1798), that book being our concern for the next few class sessions. Wordsworth's "Lines" (aka "Tintern Abbey") was the last poem. We'll talk more about the poem's fate on Wednesday. For now, it's important to note simply that Coleridge revised the poem several times, including reducing its number of archaisms in the second edition of Lyrical Ballads (1800) and adding marginal glosses in the widely anthologized edition of 1817 (that's the one in your textbook).
We'll be reading the 1798 edition, which can be found at the following link... PLEASE PRINT IT OUT: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/9622/9622-h/9622-h.htm#poem1
(If that link for some reason fails to serve its purpose, use this site: http://www.wordsworth.org.uk/history/index.asp?pageid=154 )
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