Character Transformation as Epic Element in S.T.Coleridge s (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner)

ln hisAnatorny of criticism, Northrop Frye refers to the development [whichJ occurs when a lyric on a conventional theme acfiieves a concentration that expands it into a miniature ePic: (324) Frye sites spencer s Epithalamion, Milton s Lycidas, Eliotb later poems, Edith Siturell s later poems, and many cantos of pound s as exarnples of the miniature epic.