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The imagination, as it appears in many of Coleridge's and Wordsworth's works, including "Kubla Khan", is discussed through the metaphor of water, and the use of the river in "Kubla Khan" is connected to the use of the stream in Wordsworth's The Prelude. The water imagery is also related to the divine and nature, and the poet is able to tap into ...
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 ...
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.
Lowes' most famous work is The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination (Houghton Mifflin, 1927), which examines the sources of Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan. Using Coleridge's notebook and other papers at the Bristol Library, Lowes put together a list of books that the poet read before and during the ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (/ ˈ k oʊ l ə r ɪ dʒ / KOH-lə-rij; [1]) (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth.
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
Each subject ultimately proved unsuitable for the task. The engineer finally succeeded with Michael, who is implied to be sympathetic to the ghost's goals due to his fondness for Coleridge's poetry, particularly the second half of Kubla Khan. Dirk demands proof of these claims, so Reg takes them to the mothership, where Richard is overcome by ...
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]