%0 Journal Article
%T Coleridge and Melancholy: The Case of the Wedding-guest
%A Michael John KOOY
%J E-rea : Revue ¨¦lectronique d¡¯¨¦tudes sur le Monde Anglophone
%D 2006
%I 
%R 10.4000/erea.264
%X It is an infinite merit to be able to despair. (Kierkegaard Sickness Unto Death 45)Most readers of Coleridge¡¯s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) agree that the poem¡¯s pre-modern character ¡ª its gothic setting, archaic spelling, supernatural machinery and pre-Reformation religious imagery ¡ª is an ironic contrast to the Mariner¡¯s modern existential condition, that of inhabiting a world in which meaning is not objectively given but subjectively projected. Nowhere is this latter more sharply...
%U http://erea.revues.org/264