Coleridge's Kubla Khan
1816 · Work
The opium-dream fragment of Xanadu's pleasure-dome — broken off, Coleridge claimed, by 'a person on business from Porlock' — is finally published in 1816 at Byron's urging, nearly twenty years after it was written.
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