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In Road to Xanadu (1927), a book length study of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and "Kubla Khan", John Livingston Lowes said that the poems were "two of the most remarkable poems in English". [109] When turning to the background of the works, he argued, "Coleridge as Coleridge, be it said at once, is a secondary moment to our purpose; it is ...
Xanadu may refer to: Shangdu , the summer capital of Yuan dynasty ruled by Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan. a metaphor for opulence or an idyllic place, based upon Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's description of Shangdu in his poem Kubla Khan
In Xanadu traces the path taken by Marco Polo from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to the site of Shangdu, famed as Xanadu in English literature, in Inner Mongolia, China. The book begins with William Dalrymple taking a vial of holy oil from the burning lamps of the Holy Sepulchre , which he is to transport to Shangdu , the summer ...
"Xanadu" is a song by the Canadian progressive rock band Rush from their 1977 album A Farewell to Kings. [1] It is approximately eleven minutes long, beginning with a five-minute-long instrumental section before transitioning to a narrative written by Neil Peart , which in turn was inspired by the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Kubla Khan .
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The Old English poetry which has received the most attention deals with what has been termed the Germanic heroic past. Scholars suggest that Old English heroic poetry was handed down orally from generation to generation. [42] As Christianity began to appear, re-tellers often recast the tales of Christianity into the older heroic stories.
Robert Lowth FRS (/ l aʊ ð / LOWDH; 27 November 1710 – 3 November 1787) was an English clergyman and academic who served as the Bishop of Oxford, Bishop of St Davids, Professor of Poetry and the author of one of the most influential textbooks of English grammar.
Xanadu: The Marco Polo Musical is an original musical written and produced in 1953 by Seventh Army Special Services in Germany, the first of the numerous stage musicals, film musicals and songs inspired in part by the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Kubla Khan with its opening lines: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree