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2 days ago · Besides The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge composed the symbolic poem Kubla Khan, written—Coleridge claimed—as a result of an opium dream, in "a kind of a reverie"; and the first part of the narrative poem Christabel. The writing of Kubla Khan, written about the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan and his legendary palace at Xanadu, was said ...
3 days ago · Kubla Khan Poem – by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Text-Version) Down to a sunless sea. Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! By woman wailing for her demon-lover! It flung up momently the sacred river. Ancestral voices prophesying war! From the fountain and the caves. A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) - Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream (1797) Analysis of poem available here by JM Schröder, 2002. englishromantics.com. The Crewe manuscript, the only surviving holograph; a fair copy - undoubtedly postdates composition: note particular differences inbetween the published text and this document. 4 upvotes ...
2 days ago · Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel: Kublai Khan, A Vision: The Pains of Sleep (London: John Murray, 1816), pp. vi–vii. Coleridge, almost drolly, asked his readers to take no notice of any similarities his work might have to others, knowing once a dialogue had begun in the press to discuss writing methods, there was little he could do to ...
4 days ago · Xanadu, also known as Zanadu or Shengdu, is a mythical place that is rooted in an actual area of Inner Mongolia. Xanadu became popular as the legendary place mentioned in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem as the place where Kublai Khan built a giant dome to indulge his every fantasy.
1 day ago · In a letter to his father Louis a few days later, Ginsberg described the trip as ‘astounding’ and how he fell into a fantasy world, comparing it to Coleridge’s claim that Kubla Khan emerged from an opium vision, in which he ‘saw a vision of that part of my consciousness which seemed to be permanent and transcendent and identical with ...
