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"Kubla Khan" was likely written in October 1797, though the precise date and circumstances of the first composition of "Kubla Khan" are slightly ambiguous, due to limited direct evidence. Coleridge usually dated his poems, but did not date "Kubla Khan", [4] and did not mention the poem directly in letters to his friends.
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 ...
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
Coleridge is also especially remembered for Kubla Khan, Frost at Midnight, Dejection: An Ode, Christabel, as well as the major prose work, Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. [22]
Thematically the poem is one of Coleridge's most cohesive constructs, with the narrative plot more explicit than previous works such as the fragmented Kubla Khan which tend to transcend traditional composure. Indeed, in many respects the consistency of the poem – most apparent from the structural formality and rhythmic rigidity (four ...
Full text Ode to a Nightingale at Wikisource " Ode to a Nightingale " is a poem by John Keats written either in the garden of the Spaniards Inn , Hampstead, London or, according to Keats' friend Charles Armitage Brown , under a plum tree in the garden of Keats' house at Wentworth Place , also in Hampstead.
Opium and Romanticism are well-connected subjects, as readers of Romantic poetry often come into contact with literary criticisms about the influence of opium on its works. . The idea that opium has had a direct effect on works of romantic poetry is still under debate; however, the literary criticism that has emerged throughout the years suggests very compelling ideas about opium and its ...
The most striking homage to Wollstonecraft's work, however, is in Coleridge's famous poem "Kubla Khan" (1797; 1816). [77] Not only does much of his style descend from the book, but at one point he alludes to Wollstonecraft as he is describing a cold wasteland: