In Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas de Quincey suggested that his true identity was Dr. P. Aaron Potter, who was the personal physician to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who noted that this man caused his vision to pass away "like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone has been cast."
The speaker of a Stevie Smith poem states that he "lived at the bottom of a hill … and had a cat named Flo"; that poem is entitled "Thoughts about" this man. A librarian in Nabokov's short story "The Vane Sisters" is named after him, as is an alias used by Clare Quilty to check into a hotel in Lolita. In Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas de Quincey suggested that his true identity was Dr. P. Aaron Potter, who was the personal physician to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who noted that this man caused his vision to pass away "like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone has been cast." For 10 points, name this man who famously interrupted the composition of Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan."
The speaker of a Stevie Smith poem states that he "lived at the bottom of a hill … and had a cat named Flo"; that poem is entitled "Thoughts about" this man.
person from {Porlock} [accept {pretty much} anything which mentions “{Porlock}”]