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Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816. It is sometimes given the subtitles "A Vision in a Dream" and "A Fragment." Ac
Title page of Kubla Khan (1816)
Coleridge, 1814
The Crewe manuscript, handwritten by Coleridge himself some time before the poem was published in 1816
Title page of Christabel, Kubla Khan, and the Pains of Sleep (1816)
The "person on business from Porlock" was an apocryphal unwelcome visitor to Samuel Taylor Coleridge during his composition of the poem "Kubla Khan" in 1797. Coleridge claimed to have perceived the en
Kubla Khan
…Kublai Khan (Emperor Shizu of Yuan). Upon waking, he set about writing lines of poetry that came to him from the dream until he was interrupted by "a person on business from Porlock". The poem could, according to Coleridge, not be completed according to its original 200–300 line plan, as the interruption caused him to forget the…
Porlock village, Somerset, England.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge portrait