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The poem's self-proclaimed fragmentary nature combined with Coleridge's warning about the poem in the preface turns "Kubla Khan" into an "anti-poem", a work that lacks structure, order, and leaves the reader confused instead of enlightened. [58] However, the poem has little relation to the other fragmentary poems Coleridge wrote. [59]
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1798, March 10 To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theatre "Maiden, that with sullen brow" 1797 1797, December 7 To an Unfortunate Woman whom the Author had known in the days of her Innocence "Myrtle-leaf that, ill besped," 1797 1797 To the Rev. George Coleridge Of Ottery St. Mary, Devon. With Some Poems. Notus in fratres animi paterni. - Hor
Though later critics have disputed both Lowes' findings and method, The Road to Xanadu, [8] according to English author Toby Litt, is "a book of a lifetime": "Its argument, that Coleridge had one of the most extraordinary minds the world has ever seen, is there on every page"; it "is one of the books which helped me understand what writing is."
The poem discusses the evils of slavery and laments the fate of slaves on the Middle Passage transportation route. Rare anti-slavery poem by Coleridge at risk of leaving UK, according to DCMS Skip ...
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
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 ...