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The Way to Xanadu, Orion (1993)/Knopf (1994) travels to the landmarks of Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan. A New York Times “Notable Book of the Year.” One Dry Season: In the Footsteps of Mary Kingsley in Equatorial Africa, Knopf / Bloomsbury (1989). A Book of the Month Club selection. Published in paperback by Vintage, 1991; and Phoenix, 1993.
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 ...
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
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 New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely read book review publications in the industry. [ 2 ]
The list was compiled by a team of critics and editors at The New York Times and, with the input of 503 writers and academics, assessed the books based on their impact, originality, and lasting influence. The selection includes novels, memoirs, history books, and other nonfiction works from various genres, representing well-known and emerging ...
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 ...
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 ...