Abstract

MELEGA, Marisa Pelella. Coleridge's the Rime of the Ancient Mariner. A critical reading by Arthur H. Williams. Ide (São Paulo) [online]. 2017, vol.40, n.64, pp.269-284. ISSN 0101-3106.

This is a text from chapter twelve of Nevrosi e delinquenza, a book by Arthur H. Williams. When reading Coleridge's poem, A. H. Williams found a criminal, the ancient mariner; he then decides to investigate Coleridge's biography. In it he finds many an element leading him to identify some aspects of the ancient mariner in Coleridge. According to Williams, with the creation of this poem, Coleridge would have elaborated or sublimzed his homicide tendency.

Keywords : Poem; Coleridge; Criminal tendency; Working through; Sublimation.

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