![]() ![]() In its place at the beginning is Wordsworth’s “Expostulation and Reply.” “The Foster-Mother’s Tale” Coleridge’s famous extended ballad “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere” is the first poem in the 1798 edition of “Lyrical Ballads.” The poem relates the story of a sailor who suffers terribly after he shoots an albatross, and finally learns that “He prayeth best, who loveth best/All things both great and small /For the dear God who loveth us/He made and loveth all.” “The Ancient Mariner” remains in the 1800, 18 editions of “Lyrical Ballads.” However, its title spelling is modernized, and it appears as the second-to-last rather than the first poem in subsequent editions. ![]()
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