{"id":1204,"date":"2007-10-10T06:36:36","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T06:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2007-10-10T06:47:32","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T06:47:32","slug":"the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/10\/10\/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/p>\n

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge<\/strong> & Hunt Emerson<\/strong> (Knockabout)
\nISBN 0-86166-065-X<\/p>\n

Hunt Emerson’s tactic of using Literature’s (please note the Big ‘L’) most despised form – the comic strip \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to popularise some of literature’s greatest works once again scores a palpable hit in his manic and surreal adaptation of the 18th century poem penned by that imaginative old lotus-eater and opium addict Samuel Taylor Coleridge.<\/p>\n

Like Gilbert Shelton recounts in his informative introduction, I too had to study the poem in school, and although some of the thing seemed pretty cool a lot of it slid past the nascent proto-punk rocker that was I, but the verve and glee, the mind-bending terror, and of course, the side-splitting visual gags that Emerson customises the text with make his adaptation an absolute joy to read and reread.<\/p>\n

Now in its fifth edition this joyous delight which informs without undermining the text is an absolute necessity for fans and desperate English teachers alike. I hope that there are some brave and wise enough to use it.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a9 1989, 2007 Knockabout Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge & Hunt Emerson (Knockabout) ISBN 0-86166-065-X Hunt Emerson’s tactic of using Literature’s (please note the Big ‘L’) most despised form – the comic strip \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to popularise some of literature’s greatest works once again scores a palpable hit in his manic and surreal adaptation of the 18th century poem penned by … <\/p>\n

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