Slide 7 of 16. Notes: However, in social research (and, hence, in information research), observation may be direct or indirect. That is, the researcher him- or herself, may watch what is happening, or may rely on the reported observations of others.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797â98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads.Modern editions use a revised version printed in 1817 that featured a gloss.eorge Whalley, in his 1946â47 essay, The Mariner and the Albatross, suggests that the Ancient Mariner is an autobiographical portrait of Coleridge himself, comparing the mariner's loneliness with Coleridge's own feelings of loneliness expressed in his letters and journals.
Lit2Go. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797-98 and published in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads in 1798.Along with other poems in Lyrical Ballads, it was a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature.he crew of an approaching boat is apprehensive about getting closer to the Mariner's ship. The sudden sinking of the ship put everyone in harms way. The Mariner is compelled to share his story with the Hermit, and eases his own pain in the process. 1  Year Published: 1798.