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| Day 9 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge  | Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the founders of the Romantic movement in poetry, with his friend William Wordsworth, with whom he published the groundbreaking Lyrical Ballads in 1798. He is best remembered today for his long narrative poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," and for his opium-dream poem, "Kubla Khan," today's selection for your month-long exploration of classic poetry. | | "Kubla Khan"
This is a powerful, legendary and mysterious poem, composed during an opium dream, admittedly a fragment, a poem clearly meant to be spoken, and susceptible to many interpretations.
| "Dreaming of Xanadu," A Study Guide to "Kubla Khan"
Notes on context, form and content, plus quotations and commentary from later readers of the poem.
| For further reading: Profile of Coleridge
His childhood, education and the dragoons, utopianism and an unhappy marriage, his long relationships with William and Dorothy Wordsworth, and with opium...
| Library: Poems by Coleridge
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