Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" (Xanadu)

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Romantic poem poem

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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Label	Occurrences
"Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream"	1
Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision; The Pains of Sleep	1
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" (Xanadu) canonical	1

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

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Xanadu hypertext system → hasNameOrigin → Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" (Xanadu) ⓘ

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" (Xanadu) → firstPublishedIn → Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" (Xanadu) self-linksurface differs ⓘ

subject surface form: Kubla Khan

this entity surface form: Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision; The Pains of Sleep

pleasure-dome of Xanadu → appearsIn → Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" (Xanadu) ⓘ

this entity surface form: "Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream"