Kubla Khan

I tried and failed to memorize "Kubla Khan," never getting beyond the "sunless sea" and onto the "fertile ground" with its walls and towers and garden.

Parenting And Poetry: Why I Taught My Four-Year-Olds To Recite Frost Jessie Kunhardt 2010

This recalls to mind Coleridge's "Kubla Khan," written under the influence of opium and interrupted by the persistent and thrice-accursed "Person from Porlock" - which incidentally, is a charming little village just four miles from my birthplace.

Tin 2010

I tried and failed to memorize "Kubla Khan," never getting beyond the "sunless sea" and onto the "fertile ground" with its walls and towers and garden.

Parenting And Poetry: Why I Taught My Four-Year-Olds To Recite Frost 2010

I tried and failed to memorize "Kubla Khan," never getting beyond the "sunless sea" and onto the "fertile ground" with its walls and towers and garden.

Parenting And Poetry: Why I Taught My Four-Year-Olds To Recite Frost 2010

Long before, their poets sang of the dangers: Coleridge in "Kubla Khan," who did a "stately pleasure dome decree," and Shelley: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Why The Dome Was A Dud 2008

There is a Rush song which is a straight steal from 'Kubla Khan'.

Right On Music Choice 2007

You claimed you wrote "Kubla Khan" in an afternoon after a laudanum, when you pretty manifestly did no such thing.

All Kinds of Time Wasters K. A. Laity 2005

The introduction which Coleridge wrote for the publication of "Kubla Khan" included a part of another poem, which is mentioned in the annotation to "Ripple".

The Annotated "What's Become of the Baby" Robert Hunter 2005

His choice of a pool of water being momentarily disturbed by a ripple is in accordance with Samuel Taylor Coleridge's imagery in describing the fleetingness of the altered state in "Kubla Khan":

The Annotated "Ripple" Robert Hunter 2005

Fascinating accounts of visions experienced by shamans from the Tukano of South America and the San of southern Africa, as well as the inclusion of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan," which came to the poet during an opium-induced dream, vividly illustrate the universal power of such altered states.

Books: Neolithic Spirit Realms 2005