The Road to Xanadu
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- In John Livingston Lowes
His masterpiece is The Road to Xanadu (1927), which traced the origins of the inspiration and wordings in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and “Kubla Khan” in sources indicated by records of the poet’s reading in his notebooks. The book was popular among scholars…
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