Close readings of the texts produce startling correspondences in the language used to describe alienation, isolation, and ideas of community. His surname' says Knoepflmacher, 'suggests his kinship to Coleridge's Ancient Mariner.3 So, connections between Silas Mamer and 'The Ancient Mariner' have been made before, but none has focused on consonance and dissonance in the language and narrative structure of each text in relation to the other. Knoepflmacher argued that: 'oth The Mill on the Floss and Silas Mamer hark back to those poems of severance, loss, and expiation that had haunted the imaginations of Coleridge and Wordsworth at the turn of the century.2 Elsewhere, Knoepflmacher has suggested that 'he man called "Old Master Mamer" belongs and does not belong to that disinherited race of wanderers who roam through the Lyrical Ballads. It is to him what the blessing of the animals is to the Ancient Mariner.' 1 In 1977, U. He noted the novel's 'great affinity' with the poem: 'A little child, its mother having frozen to death at his solitary hovel, is taken in by Silas. In 1861 Henry Crabb Robinson compared George Eliot's Silas Mamer with Coleridge's 'The Ancient Mariner'.
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