Which English Romantic poet wrote 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798), in which a sailor brings a curse upon his ship by shooting a sacred albatross with his crossbow?

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  1. Step 1: The opening poem of the landmark 1798 collaborative collection 'Lyrical Ballads', this work heralded the dawn of English literary Romanticism.
  2. Step 2: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's ballad depicts the ancient mariner narrating his supernatural voyage to a Wedding-Guest, having been punished with spiritual desolation for gratuitously killing the albatross.
Answer
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Why not the others: 'William Wordsworth' Wordsworth co-authored 'Lyrical Ballads' with Coleridge in 1798 and wrote 'The Prelude' and 'Tintern Abbey'; 'Lord Byron' Lord Byron was a leading second-generation Romantic poet famous for 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' and 'She Walks in Beauty'; 'John Keats' John Keats was a master second-generation Romantic poet who composed famous 1819 odes including 'Ode to a Nightingale' and 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'.

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