The Rime of the Ancient Mariner that the poem may have been inspired by the voyage of Thomas James into the Arctic. According to William Wordsworth, the poem was inspired while Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Wordsworth's sister Dorothy were on a walking tour through the Quantock Hills in Somerset. The discussion had turned to a book that Wordsworth was reading, "A Voyage Round The World by Way of the Great South Sea" (1726) by Captain George Shelvocke. In the book, a melancholy sailor, Simon Hatley, shoots a black albatross: As they discussed Shelvocke's book, Wordsworth proffers the following developmental critique to Coleridge, which importantly contains a reference
Joseba Sarrionandia and irony. Atxaga speculates on a fifth phase, based on the poem "La vida ha llegado y tiene tus ojos," where the "life that has arrived" could be a child. He has translated books by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ("The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"), Constantine P. Cavafy, T. S. Eliot, Manuel Bandeira, Fernando Pessoa ("Marinela"), Marcel Schwob ("La Croisade des enfants"), Dolf Verroen ("Slaaf kindje slaaf") and various literary works of fifty different languages. Joseba Sarrionandia Joseba Sarrionandia Uribelarrea (Iurreta, Biscay, April 13, 1958 – ) is a Basque writer who has published a large number of books of poetry