It’s a trope that’s as old as the written word: the brilliant artist whose creative genius is intricately tied to substance abuse—or so the genius usually believes. For Hemingway, it was alcohol; for ...

A stately pleasure dome decree. These words, from English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 1797 poem Kubla Khan, paint a romantic picture of the medieval Chinese emperor Kublai Khan, grandson of the ...

This is the voice of poetry itself. The musicality of the opening lines, the magisterial diction of the second stanza, the prophet’s tone in the third stanza, the enchantment, the sense of spinning ...

SAMUEL Taylor Coleridge’s Kubla Khan is one of the most imaginative poems in English literature. It is, regrettably, also unfinished, since an unexpected caller broke the poet’s train of thought. Here ...

For a week I have been traveling steadily to the east, and now at the rim of the world, I found my destination. The travel exhausted me, robbed me of the vigor needed for the work ahead. But another ...

Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one of the most famous poems in the English language. Rajan Datar discusses the story of this mysterious work. Show more “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) is one of the most famous of the English poets. Along with his literary partner, William Wordsworth, he founded the Romantic Movement in England, which sought to ...

A stately pleasure dome decree. These words, from English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 1797 poem Kubla Khan, paint a romantic picture of the medieval Chinese emperor Kublai Khan, grandson of the ...