A stately pleasure dome decree. These words, from English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 1797 poem Kubla Khan, paint a romantic picture of the medieval Chinese emperor Kublai Khan, grandson of the ...

This is the voice of poetry itself. The musicality of the opening lines, the magisterial diction of the second stanza, the prophet’s tone in the third stanza, the enchantment, the sense of spinning ...

The hypnotic tone poem "The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan" came to American composer Charles Tomlinson Griffes in a dream. And it maintains that dreamy, evocative quality. JoAnn Falletta conducts the ...

A dazzling new exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art displays the cosmopolitanism that flourished during the reign of Kublai Khan, one of the medieval world’s most powerful emperors For ...

One evening in the fall of 1797 in a lonely Exmoor farmhouse, Samuel Taylor Coleridge fell into an opium-induced sleep. Upon awakening, he immediately began writing down the poem that had come to him ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridges Kubla Khan: A Vision in a Dream & Christabel is a mesmerizing collection of two of the authors most famous poems. Kubla Khan is a lyrical exploration of the creative process ...

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Leading the Mongols to defeat China, Kublai Khan fulfilled his grandfather's ambitions to rule one of history’s largest empires. Kublai Khan’s portrait was painted after his death in 1294 and hangs in ...

The name "Yuan" means "Origin of the universe," and while the Yuan Dynasty didn't last long, its influence proved far more profound. Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, inherited a fractured but ...