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"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 conferred the noble title "Duke of Ying" (瀛國公) on Zhao Xian and a princess title on Zhao Xian's ethnic Mongol wife, Lady Borjigin. Kublai Khan further ordered that Zhao Xian and Lady Borjigin be given a residence in Dadu and receive preferential treatment. In 1298, Zhao Xian was given permission to move his residence to Shangdu.
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 book is framed as a conversation between the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan, and Marco Polo.The majority of the book consists of brief prose poems describing 55 fictitious cities that are narrated by Polo, many of which can be read as commentary on culture, language, time, memory, death, or human experience generally.
Pages in category "Cultural depictions of Kublai Khan" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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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.
The story is a postmodern philosophical treatise written in the traditions of Buddhism and Vedanism. [5]Having a traditional Russian name Ivan, the last name of the hero of the story - Kublakhanov refers to Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan: or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment".