Kubla Khan and Other Poems

Name: Kubla Khan and Other Poems
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
ISBN: 9781911495185

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Series: Timeless Classics
Language: English
Length: 128 pages
ISBN: 9781911495185
Published: 27 June 2016
Imprint: Urban Romantics

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Kubla Khan is a poem composed one night after Samuel Taylor Coleridge experienced an opium-influenced dream after reading a work describing Xanadu, the summer palace of the Mongol ruler and Emperor of China Kublai Khan.

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles Lloyd.

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