Kubla in a sentence

However, the immediate response to the 1816 collection was to ignore Christabel and "Kubla Khan" or simply to attack "Kubla Khan".

Although Asra/Hutchinson is similar to the way Coleridge talks about the Abyssinian maid, Hutchinson was someone he met after writing "Kubla Khan".

Both Kubla Khan and Christabel have an additional " Romantic " aura because they were never finished.

David Perkins, in 1990, argued that "Coleridge's introductory note to "Kubla Khan" weaves together two myths with potent imaginative appeal.

De Quincey writes about the great English Romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), whose " Kubla Khan " is also widely considered to be a poem of the opium experience.

Edward Ullendorff, Ethiopia and the Bible (Oxford: University Press for the British Academy, 1968), p. 2. Sources There are many sources attributed to "Kubla Khan" for the style, imagery, and topic.

Focus on the impact of a Little Ice Age on the empire, as the empire, beginning with a sharp drop in temperatures in the 13th century during which time the Mongol leader Kubla Khan moved south into China.

For 'Kubla Khan' is as near enchantment, I suppose, as we are like to come in this dull world.

He thought that a dome was an attempt to hide from the ideal and escape into a private creation, and Kubla Khan's dome is a flaw that keeps him from truly connecting to nature.

His description of Mount Amara was published in 1540, and appears in Purchas, his Pilgrimes, the book Coleridge was reading before he wrote "Kubla Khan".

Holmes 1989 qtd p. 161 It is possible that the imagery of Biographia Literaria followed the recovery of the "Kubla Khan" manuscript during the composition of the book.

However, the exact date of the poem is uncertain because Coleridge normally dated his poems but did not date Kubla Khan.

I have to come back to it here, however, for the particular flavor of "Kubla Khan", with its air of mystery, is describable in part through that convenient phrase.

In 'Kubla Khan' the linked and interweaving images irresponsibly and gloriously stream, like the pulsing, fluctuating banners of the North.

In Road to Xanadu (1927), a book length study of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and "Kubla Khan", John Livingston Lowes claimed that the poems were "two of the most remarkable poems in English".

In the early 19th century, the ghost discovers Coleridge, who in this reality has yet to be interrupted by the " man from Porlock " during the writing of "Kubla Khan".

It would not be excessive to say that no small part of the extraordinary fame of 'Kubla Khan' inheres in its alleged marvellous conception.

Norman Fruman, in 1971, argued: "To discuss 'Kubla Khan' as one might any other great poem would be an exercise in futility.

S. Eliot's objection to the exaggerated repute of the surrealist "Kubla Khan" is not unjustified.

She is similar to John Keats's Indian woman in Endymion who is revealed to be the moon goddess, but in "Kubla Khan" she is also related to the sun and the sun as an image of divine truth.