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Download or read book Kubla Khan written by Samuel Coleridge and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Kublai Khan written by John Man and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis 'Kubla Khan' Poetic Structure, Hypnotic Quality, and Cognitive Style by : Reuven Tsur
Download or read book 'Kubla Khan' Poetic Structure, Hypnotic Quality, and Cognitive Style written by Reuven Tsur and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Sources, Meaning, and Influences of Coleridge's Kubla Khan by : Robert F. Fleissner
Download or read book Sources, Meaning, and Influences of Coleridge's Kubla Khan written by Robert F. Fleissner and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).
Download or read book Kublai Khan written by Tariq Hameed and published by Authorhouse UK. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One night, the English Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was ill! So ingesting, opium based a medication; while reading a book on the Great Emperor, fell into a fitful sleep: and so dreamt about the legendary Khan. On awakening, he began writing his laced dream, Kubla Khan. Unfortunately, he penned only fifty-four lines, before he was brutally interrupted, by an unfortunate bell-toll. Later, his famous friend Lord Byron, urged Coleridge to share it with a larger audience; rather than just his intimates. The poem as such, was finally published in 1797. In a comprehensive study of the three-stanza poem, Tariq Hameed compares sections of Coleridge's verse with the life of the Mongol emperor of China and founder of the Yuan dynasty. Throughout his presentation, Tariq shares his unique perspectives of the original poem; a history of the Khan: his family, his wars, and his futuristic inspirations; and of his own poetic reflections. Finally, Tariq explores Khan's death and legacy: in his five added episodes! Kublai Khan is a unique study of the poem Kubla Khan and the life of the Chinese Emperor.
Book Synopsis 'Kubla Khan' and the Fall of Jerusalem by : E. S. Shaffer
Download or read book 'Kubla Khan' and the Fall of Jerusalem written by E. S. Shaffer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-06-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of the mythological school of European Biblical criticism.
Download or read book Kubla Khan written by Kathleen Krull and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Conqueror written by Conn Iggulden and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.)
Book Synopsis Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan and Christabel by : Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Download or read book Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan and Christabel written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Xanadu written by William Dalrymple and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 1989 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Book Synopsis Towards a Romantic Conception of Nature by : Hendrik Roelof Rookmaaker
Download or read book Towards a Romantic Conception of Nature written by Hendrik Roelof Rookmaaker and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study describes in detail the development of Coleridge's attitude to nature as it is reflected in his poetry. It analyses the different stages of Coleridge's search for a meaningful relation to nature from an uncritical adoption of the eighteenth century conventions in his early poetry to a projectionist view in his poems of 1802. It offers challenging new readings of some of Coleridge's major poems like 'The Ancient Mariner' and 'Dejection: an Ode', and tries to rehabilitate some minor ones, like 'The Picture'. Attention is also paid to his relation with Wordsworth. It discusses in detail the philosophical background of Coleridge's views and considers the contribution of German thought to his development. As a whole this study affords a new insight into the genesis of romanticism in England.
Book Synopsis Monks of Kublai Khan, Emperor of China by : Rabban Sawma
Download or read book Monks of Kublai Khan, Emperor of China written by Rabban Sawma and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Towards the end of the thirteenth century the Nestorian monk, Rabban Sawma, together with his disciple Mark, set out from Khanbaliq (Beijing), the capital city of Kublai Khan's Mongol Empire, on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Travelling through northern China and Central Asia they arrived at Maraghah, capital city of the Ilkhanate that was Mongol-ruled Persia. Military unrest prevented them from ever reaching Jerusalem but they did reah Baghdad, where Rabban Sawma spent many years. Summoned by Arghun Khan, the Ilkhan ruler and grand nephew of Kublai Khan, Sawma was made Ilkhanid ambassador and sent to Europe, first travelling to Constantinople to meet the Byzantine emperor and then to meet the kings of France and England as well as Pope Nicholas IV. Sawma's disciple, Mark, became the Nestorian Catholicus. Sawma's account of his travels provides unique information on the Ilkhans of Perisa and their dealings with the Mongol Christians as well as the events that led to the downfall of the Nestorian Church in China and further offers a unique picture of Medieval Europe through Asian eyes. Translated by Sir E.A. Wallis Budge, who also included a substantial introduction, the work is now rare. This edition contains a new introduction by Professor David Morgan, the leading scholar of the Mongol period.
Download or read book Khubilai Khan written by Morris Rossabi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living from 1215 to 1294, Khubilai Khan is one of history’s most renowned figures. Morris Rossabi draws on sources from a variety of East Asian, Middle Eastern, and European languages as he focuses on the life and times of the great Mongol monarch. This 20th anniversary edition is updated with a new preface examining how twenty years of scholarly and popular portraits of Khubilai have shaped our understanding of the man and his time.
Download or read book Poems written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American and British Poetry by : Harriet Semmes Alexander
Download or read book American and British Poetry written by Harriet Semmes Alexander and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Reading Literature After Deconstruction written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Best Remembered Poems by : Martin Gardner
Download or read book Best Remembered Poems written by Martin Gardner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th- and 20th-century British and American verse range from the impassioned "Renascence" of Edna St. Vincent Millay to Edward Lear's whimsical "The Owl and the Pussycat."nbsp; Famous poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson, Whitman and Frost are well-represented, as are less well-known poets.
