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To the Rev. George Coleridge Of Ottery St. Mary, Devon. With Some Poems. Notus in fratres animi paterni. - Hor "A blesséd lot hath he, who having passed" 1797 1797 On the Christening of a Friend's Child "This day among the faithful plac'd" 1797 1797 Translation of a Latin Inscription by the Rev. W. L. Bowles in Nether-Stowey Church
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". [108] 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" 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 .
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." [9]
The poem received mixed reviews from critics, and Coleridge was once told by the publisher that most of the book's sales were to sailors who thought it was a naval songbook. Coleridge made several modifications to the poem over the years. In the second edition of Lyrical Ballads, published in 1800, he replaced many of the archaic words.
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
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Coleridge told the most famous story that connects Coleridge's work with his opium usage in his well-known preface to the poem Kubla Khan. Coleridge wrote: Coleridge wrote: The author continued for about 3 hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he has the most vivid confidence, that he could not have ...