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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

African American Review (AAR) is a scholarly aggregation of insightful essays on African American literature, theatre, film, the visual arts, and culture; interviews; poetry; fiction; and book reviews ...

We'll hear a portion of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan written in 1798. The excerpt is read by actor Ben Kingsley.

Jack Weatherford: What Kublai Khan lacked in military prowess was made up for in political intuition. Photos / supplied The Mongol Chinese emperor Kublai Khan was immortalised by English poet Samuel ...

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 ...

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 ...