Dr Anna Clark 2 months ago
”In Xanadu, did Kubla Khan,
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea…”
Kubla Khan, composed 1797 (first pub. 1816) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Romantic poet, born #OTD 1772.
Portrait by Allston 1814 NPG London