Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" (Xanadu)
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" is a famous Romantic-era work that vividly depicts the exotic, dreamlike pleasure-dome of Xanadu and has become iconic for its rich imagery and fragmentary, visionary quality.
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| instanceOf |
Romantic poem
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poem → |
| alternativeTitle |
Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream
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Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment → |
| associatedConcept |
Xanadu as an idealized, exotic paradise
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poetic inspiration as trance or dream → |
| author |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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| basedOn |
Kublai Khan
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| compositionDate |
1797
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| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
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| criticalReputation |
celebrated for rich, dreamlike imagery
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one of the most famous poems of English Romanticism → |
| describedAs |
fragment
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vision in a dream → |
| firstPublicationDate |
1816
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| firstPublishedIn |
Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision; The Pains of Sleep
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| form |
accentual verse
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irregular meter → |
| genre |
lyric poetry
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visionary poem → |
| hasParatext |
Coleridge’s preface describing an interrupted opium dream
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| influenceOnCulture |
popularized the name Xanadu in Western culture
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| influenceOnLiterature |
inspired numerous later Romantic and modernist writers
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| inspiredBy |
Samuel Purchas’s travel book Purchas, His Pilgrimage
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| language |
English
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| lineCount |
54
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| literaryMovement |
Romanticism
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| mainCharacter |
Kublai Khan
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| meter |
variable iambic and accentual patterns
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| notableImage |
Abyssinian maid with a dulcimer
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caverns measureless to man → pleasure-dome → sunless sea → |
| openingLine |
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
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| period |
Romantic era
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| placeOfComposition |
near Porlock, Somerset
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| publisher |
John Murray
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| rhymeScheme |
irregular rhyme scheme
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| setting |
Xanadu
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pleasure-dome of Xanadu → |
| structure |
two main movements
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| subjectMatter |
Kublai Khan’s decree to build a stately pleasure-dome in Xanadu
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| theme |
creative power
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exoticism → imagination → nature and the sublime → the limits of artistic creation → |
| title |
Kubla Khan
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Referenced by (3)
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pleasure-dome of Xanadu
(""Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream"")
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appearsIn |
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Kubla Khan
("Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision; The Pains of Sleep")
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firstPublishedIn |
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Xanadu hypertext system
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