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54. Full text. Kubla Khan at Wikisource. Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream ( / ˌkʊblə ˈkɑːn /) is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816. It is sometimes given the subtitles "A Vision in a Dream" and "A Fragment." According to Coleridge's preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night ...
Porlock village, Somerset, England. The "person on business from Porlock" was an unwelcome visitor to Samuel Taylor Coleridge during his composition of the poem Kubla Khan in 1797. Coleridge claimed to have perceived the entire course of the poem in a dream (possibly an opium -induced haze), but was interrupted by this visitor who came "on ...
Christabel. (poem) Christabel. Christabel is a long narrative ballad by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in two parts. The first part was reputedly written in 1797, and the second in 1800. Coleridge planned three additional parts, but these were never completed. Coleridge prepared for the first two parts to be published in the 1800 edition of Lyrical ...
Kubla Khan: Or, A vision in a dream. A Fragment. "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan" 1798 1816 Recantation: Illustrated in the Story of the Mad Ox "An Ox, long fed with musty hay," 1798 1798, July 30 Hexameters. ('William my teacher,' &c.) "William, my teacher, my friend! dear William and dear Dorothea!" 1799 1851
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a philosopher and writer known for his influence on English literature, coined the turn-of-phrase and elaborated upon it. Suspension of disbelief is the avoidance—often described as willing—of critical thinking and logic in understanding something that is unreal or impossible in reality, such as something in a work ...
Xanadu is the fictional estate of Charles Foster Kane, the title character of the film Citizen Kane (1941). The estate derives its name from the ancient city of Xanadu, known for its splendor. Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California, has been considered to be the main inspiration for Xanadu, due to the William Randolph Hearst /Kane comparison ...
Purchas his Pilgrimes became one of the sources of inspiration for the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. As a note to Coleridge's poem explains, "In the summer of the year 1797, the Author, then in ill health, had retired to a lonely farm-house between Porlock and Linton, on the Exmoor confines of Somerset and Devonshire.
Religion. Buddhism. Kublai Khan[ d] (23 September 1215 – 18 February 1294), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Shizu of Yuan and his regnal name Setsen Khan, was the founder and first emperor of the Mongol -led Yuan dynasty of China. He proclaimed the dynastic name "Great Yuan" [ e] in 1271, and ruled Yuan China until his death in 1294.