Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner"
Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner" (1798), lines 451-56 -- with "who" substituted
for "that" in line 451. (In the 1817
revision, the passage occupies lines
445-450.) The second direct allusion to this poem in the novel:
the first occurs in Walton's second letter to Mrs. Saville (Letter 2).