The Way to Xanadu

ISBN-10
0297813137
ISBN-13
9780297813132
Category
Exoticism in literature
Pages
194
Language
English
Published
1993
Author
Caroline Alexander

Description

As a child in Florida, Caroline Alexander learnt Coleridge's masterpiece of a poem, 'Kubla Khan'. Coleridge recalled that it was composed in an opium sleep as he was reading about Kubla Khan. He awoke and wrote fifty-five lines of the poem before being interrupted. Scholars have ever since discussed the contemporary works that had influenced Coleridge. In The Way to Xanadu, a literary travel book, Caroline Alexander recounts her quest across three continents to discover the sources of Coleridge's inspiration.

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