"The rime of the ancient mariner" introduction / James D. Boulger -- Part one: interpretations -- A poem of pure imagination: an experiment in reading / Robert Penn Warren -- "The ancient mariner" / Humphry House -- The mariner and the albatross / George Whally -- The sad wisdom of the mariner / A. M. Buchan -- Part two: view points -- John Livingston Lowes -- Frederick A. Pottle -- Maud Bodkin -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge.