Which Romantic poet wrote 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” The poem was composed in 1797–98 and first published in the 1798 edition of Lyrical Ballads, the landmark collection Coleridge produced with William Wordsworth.

Its supernatural sea voyage follows an unnamed mariner whose shooting of an albatross brings a chain of curses upon his ship and crew. The poem explores guilt, punishment, isolation, and spiritual redemption through vivid imagery, repetition, and ballad-like rhythm. Coleridge’s spelling of “Rime” is deliberate and reflects the poem’s archaic, folkloric atmosphere.

A common mix-up is to credit Wordsworth because he was Coleridge’s collaborator in Lyrical Ballads and helped shape the collection’s literary importance. Wordsworth did contribute some ideas and revisions, but Coleridge is the poem’s author. The 1817 version added explanatory marginal glosses, which many modern editions reproduce.