The Road to Xanadu

A Study in the Ways of the Imagination

Paperback, 614 pages

Published 1978 by Picador.

ISBN:
978-0-330-25270-6
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John Livingston Lowes’s classic work shows how various images from Coleridge’s extensive reading, particularly in travel literature, coalesced to form the imagistic texture of his two most famous poems, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and “Kubla Khan.”

Originally published in 1927.

2 editions

Subjects

  • poetry
  • imagination
  • coleridge