THE RIME & THE ALBATROSS
At over 600 lines the work is the longest – and maybe the most famous – from the quill of 18th century poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A man, it seems, who wasn’t averse to experimenting with opiates to enhance his view of the world.
Literary scholars have toiled over the poem and its meaning ever since it was published in 1798, but for us ordinary
