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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 in the spring of 1798.
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:
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