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
Porlock village, Somerset, England.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge portrait
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Porlock is a coastal village in Somerset, England, 5 miles west of Minehead. At the 2011 census, the village had a population of 1,440.
Person on business from Porlock
…have perceived the entire course of the poem in a dream (possibly an opium-induced haze), but was interrupted by a visitor who came "on business from Porlock" while in the process of writing it. "Kubla Khan", only 54 lines long, was never completed. Thus "person from Porlock", "man from Porlock", or just…
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Porlock beach