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S.T.COLERIDGE KUBLA KHAN "Kubla Khan is a voice and a vision, an everlasting tune in our mouths, a dream...revived and re-inspired...a piece of the invisible world made visible by a sun at midnight and sliding before our eyes." (Leigh Hunt, "sketches of living poets) Born in 1772 in Ottery. St., T.S.Coleridge lead a very disquiet life in his early childhood. After his father's death he was sent to the Christ's hospital school. There he had felt a great emotional vacuum, which was the beginning of his continuos ill health. Charles Lamb, his schoolmate, gave us an account of this period affirming that Coleridge was highly imaginative, who sought refuge in reading old romantic tales as well as Homer, Virgil, and Shakespeare. Perhaps the most influential period in Coleridge's life was the period when he met Wordsworth in 1795, after he had left Cambridge. It seemed that in...

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