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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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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.