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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 business from Porlock " while in the ...
Kublai Khan [b] [c] (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" [d] in 1271, and ruled Yuan China until his death in 1294.
The Crewe manuscript is the only manuscript copy of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan. [1] It is a holograph manuscript (i.e., written in Coleridge's own hand), from some time between the poem's composition in 1797 and its publication in 1816.
The story is a postmodern philosophical treatise written in the traditions of Buddhism and Vedanism. [5]Having a traditional Russian name Ivan, the last name of the hero of the story - Kublakhanov refers to Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan: or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment".
In 1271, Kublai Khan dispatched envoys to obtain persons skilled in the management of mangonels [trebuchets] from his kinsman Abaqa, the Ilkhan in Persia. The latter sent Al al-Din and Ismail, together with their families, by post route to Hangzhou , where they began by building large mangonels which they erected in front of the city gates.
Kublai Khan thus maintained the bureaucratic structure, but allowed Chinese observations and predictions to be checked by respected Muslim scholars. He is credited with having taken seven astronomical instruments to Kublai Khan, as a present from Hulagu Khan including a Persian astrolabe , a globe and an armillary sphere , in 1267.
Kubla Khan is described as a Chinese emperor. Not true. Getting rid of that statement. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.19.14.92 14:13, 15 July 2008 (UTC) Actually, Kublai Khan (the man the poem is titled after, even thought it is spelled differntly) was an emperor of China. He took control of of northern China in 1271 and finally ...