It was accompanied by a note to the reader that identifies a "person on business from Porlock" interfering with its composition.
It was accompanied by a note to the reader that identifies a "person on business from Porlock" interfering with its composition. Written in iambic tetrameter, its first section describes "gardens bright with sinuous rills" and "an incense bearing tree." With a title inspired by a passage in Purchas' Pilgrimage, it was William Bartram's Travels that suggested the "mighty fountain momently ... forced." After hearing "a damsel with a dulcimer… singing of Mount Abora," the poem's speaker imagines himself building a device in the air that is sunny, in order to fulfill the decree of the title emperor. FTP, name this poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a work that envisions the construction of "a stately pleasure-dome" in Xanadu.
It was accompanied by a note to the reader that identifies a "person on business from Porlock" interfering with its composition.
“{Kubla Khan}”