The preface to the poem states that the poet drew inspiration from Purchas his Pilgrimage and describes the poem as a "psychological curiosity". Places mentioned include "forests ancient as the hills" and "that deep romantic chasm", the source of a spring which bursts forth 
The preface to the poem states that the poet drew inspiration from Purchas his Pilgrimage and describes the poem as a "psychological curiosity". Places mentioned include "forests ancient as the hills" and "that deep romantic chasm", the source of a spring which bursts forth sending "huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail". Later the poet describes a dulcimer being played by an "Abyssynian maid", and "voices prophesying war", and in it "a sunless sea" is approached by "Alph, the sacred river". For 10 points, name this poem in which "a stately pleasure dome" is decreed in Xanadu by the titular Mongol ruler, a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The preface to the poem states that the poet drew inspiration from Purchas his Pilgrimage and describes the poem as a "psychological curiosity".
"{Kubla Khan}; or, A {Vision} in a {Dream}: A {Fragment}"