Kubla Khan

Kubla Khan
Author: Samuel Coleridge
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 12
Release: 2015-12-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1443442216

Though left uncompleted, “Kubla Khan” is one of the most famous examples of Romantic era poetry. In it, Samuel Coleridge provides a stunning and detailed example of the power of the poet’s imagination through his whimsical description of Xanadu, the capital city of Kublai Khan’s empire. Samuel Coleridge penned “Kubla Khan” after waking up from an opium-induced dream in which he experienced and imagined the realities of the great Mongol ruler’s capital city. Coleridge began writing what he remembered of his dream immediately upon waking from it, and intended to write two to three hundred lines. However, Coleridge was interrupted soon after and, his memory of the dream dimming, was ultimately unable to complete the poem. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Kublai Khan

Kublai Khan
Author: John Man
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2012-03-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 144648615X

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree Kublai Khan lives on in the popular imagination thanks to these two lines of poetry by Coleridge. But the true story behind this legend is even more fantastic than the poem would have us believe. He inherited the second largest land empire in history from his grandfather, Genghis Khan. He promptly set about extending this into the biggest empire the world has ever seen, extending his rule from China to Iraq, from Siberia to Afghanistan. His personal domain covered sixty-percent of all Asia, and one-fifth of the world's land area. The West first learnt of this great Khan through the reports of Marco Polo. Kublai had not been born to rule, but had clawed his way to leadership, achieving power only in his 40s. He had inherited Genghis Khan's great dream of world domination. But unlike his grandfather he saw China and not Mongolia as the key to controlling power and turned Genghis' unwieldy empire into a federation. Using China's great wealth, coupled with his shrewd and subtle government, he created an empire that was the greatest since the fall of Rome, and shaped the modern world as we know it today. He gave China its modern-day borders and his legacy is that country's resurgence, and the superpower China of tomorrow.

'Kubla Khan' Poetic Structure, Hypnotic Quality, and Cognitive Style

'Kubla Khan' Poetic Structure, Hypnotic Quality, and Cognitive Style
Author: Reuven Tsur
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027223696

This book endorses Coleridge's statement: "nothing can permanently please which does not contain in itself the reason why it is so". It conceives of "Kubla Khan" as of a hypnotic poem, in which the "obtrusive rhythms" produce a hypnotic, emotionally heightened response, giving false security to the "Platonic Censor", so that our imagination is left free to explore higher levels of uncertainty. Critics intolerant of uncertainty tend to account for the poem's effect by extraneous background information. The book consists of three parts employing different research methods. Part One is speculative, and discusses three aspects of a complex aesthetic event: the verbal structure of "Kubla Khan", validity in interpretation, and the influence of the critic's decision style on his critical decisions. The other two parts are empirical. Part Two explores reader response to gestalt qualities of rhyme patterns and hypnotic poems in perspective of decision style and professional training. Part Three submits four recordings of the poem by leading British actors to instrumental investigation.

'Kubla Khan' and the Fall of Jerusalem

'Kubla Khan' and the Fall of Jerusalem
Author: E. S. Shaffer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1980-06-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521298070

The development of the mythological school of European Biblical criticism.

Conqueror

Conqueror
Author: Conn Iggulden
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Total Pages: 511
Release: 2011-12-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0345532333

For lovers of thrilling adventure and grand history, the bestselling co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Dangerous Book for Boys has written a magnificent novel with a hero for the ages: the legendary, visionary conqueror Kublai Khan. A succession of ruthless men have seized power in the wake of Genghis Khan’s death—all descendants of the great leader, but none with his indomitable character. One grandson, Guyuk, strains the loyalties of the tribes to the breaking point, and another, Mongke, brutally eliminates the opposition and dispatches his younger brothers Kublai and Hulegu to far-flung territories. Hulegu displays his barbarity with the savage destruction of Baghdad and his clash with the Khan’s age-old enemies, the cult of assassins. But it is Kublai—refined and scholarly, always considered too thoughtful to take power—who will devise new ways of warfare and conquest as he builds the dream city of Xanadu and pursues the ultimate prize: the ancient empire of Sung China. His gifts will serve him well when an epic civil war breaks out among brothers, the outcome of which will literally change the world. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Conn Iggulden's The Blood of Gods. “Conqueror is as real as military fiction gets. Conn Iggulden’s story of one of history’s most ferocious and brilliant warriors is full of lessons for our warfighters today.”—Gunnery Sergeant Jack Coughlin, USMC (ret.), New York Times bestselling author of Shooter and Kill Zone: A Sniper Novel “A rollicking, dangerous and often very gory gallop through the largest land empire the world has ever known.”—Sunday Express (U.K.) “A thrilling journey, rippingly told . . . Iggulden’s most satisfying to date.”—The Daily Telegraph (U.K.)

Sources, Meaning, and Influences of Coleridge's Kubla Khan

Sources, Meaning, and Influences of Coleridge's Kubla Khan
Author: Robert F. Fleissner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2000
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

This study contains an analysis of the poem Kubla Khan. It provides an examination of the construct of the poem as a whole and its modern effect in terms of influence upon others (for example, Poe, Tennyson, Forster, and Bowen).

Kubla Khan

Kubla Khan
Author: Kathleen Krull
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: China
ISBN: 9780545475402

An introduction to the thirteenth-century Chinese emperor which offers a more complete picture of the man than books which treat him as just a supporting player in Marco Polo's adventures.

In Xanadu

In Xanadu
Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Total Pages: 354
Release: 1989
Genre: Asia
ISBN: 9780143031079

In Xanadu is, without doubt, one of the best travel books produced in the last 20 years. It is witty and intelligent, brilliantly observed, deftly constructed and extremely entertaining& Dalrymple s gift for transforming ordinary humdrum experience into something extraordinary and timeless suggests that he will go from strength to strength Alexander Maitland, Scotland on Sunday