Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream (/ ˌ k ʊ b l ə ˈ k ɑː n /) is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816.It is sometimes given the subtitles "A Vision in a Dream" and "A Fragment."
Kublai Khan [d] [e] (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" [f] in 1271, and ruled Yuan China until his death in 1294.
Book One describes the lands of the Middle East and Central Asia that Marco encountered on his way to China. Book Two describes China and the court of Kublai Khan. Book Three describes some of the coastal regions of the East: Japan, India, Sri Lanka, South-East Asia, and the east coast of Africa.
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 seat of the King Kubla Khan. It has been mentioned that Kubla Khan wanted a hundred learned men armed with Christian knowledge to come to his Khanate and spread the knowledge of Christianity.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 September 2024. Mongol-led dynasty of China (1271–1368) Great Yuan 大元 Dà Yuán (Chinese) ᠳᠠᠢ ᠦᠨ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ Dai Ön ulus (Mongolian) 1271–1368 Yuan dynasty (c. 1290) Status Khagan -ruled division of the Mongol Empire Conquest dynasty of Imperial China Capital Khanbaliq (now Beijing ...
1964 Doctor Who serial 004 – Marco Polo Doctor Who serial Marco Polo, Susan, the Doctor, and Ian Cast Doctor William Hartnell – First Doctor Companions William Russell – Ian Chesterton Jacqueline Hill – Barbara Wright Carole Ann Ford – Susan Foreman Others Mark Eden – Marco Polo Derren Nesbitt – Tegana Zienia Merton – Ping-Cho Martin Miller – Kublai Khan Jimmy Gardner ...
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 ...
At the beginning of the 20th century, Rudyard Kipling referred to lines 69 and 70, alongside three lines from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Kubla Khan, when he claimed of poetry: "In all the millions permitted there are no more than five—five little lines—of which one can say, 'These are the magic. These are the vision.