Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
CRITICISM
Adair, Patricia A. “‘Kubla Khan’ and the Underworld.” In The Waking Dream: A Study of Coleridge's Poetry, pp. 108-43. London: Edward Arnold, 1967.
Explicates the imagery of “Kubla Khan” with particular emphasis on references to the underworld of Greek mythology.
Beer, J. B. “The River and the Caverns.” In Coleridge the Visionary, pp. 199-229. London: Chatto & Windus, 1959.
Provides an analysis of the symbolic imagery of “Kubla Khan,” in which the river and cavern images in the poem are viewed as representative of “dialectic creativity … in a fallen world” and Kubla is seen as a emblem of the “commanding genius.”
Beer, John. “Remapping the Roads to Xanadu and Highgate: Another Look at Coleridge's Reading.” The Wordsworth Circle 29, no. 1 (winter 1998): 25-30.
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