MY FIRST ENCOUNTER with Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poetry was through Iron Maiden’s rendition of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” I was 14, a high schooler in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Steve Harris, the band’s founder and bassist, had written a lyric summary of Coleridge’s ballad to realize another classic in heavy metal music, just under […]
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