TA0103: Kubla Khan, or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment

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Kubla Khan, or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment

WRITTEN BY:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

NARRATED BY:
Michael Scott

A poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge after awaking from an opium induced dream of Xanadu, the summer palace of the Emperor Kublai Khan. A much more extensive poem came to him upon awaking, but he was interrupted while writing it down and then could not remember the remaining lines.

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coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An English poet, literary critic and philosopher who was one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England. He was instrumental in introducing the German idealist philosophy to English-speaking cultures.