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Cargando... The Way to Xanadupor Caroline Alexander
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Alexander travels first to the "lost city" of Shengdu, China - the original "Xanadu" on which the famous poem is based. She then takes the reader to Florida, Kashmir, and Abyssinia (Ethiopia), other far-flung places about which Coleridge had written; a brief piece on Exmoor, where "Xanadu" was actually written, rounds out this well-written group of essays. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
As a child in Florida, Caroline Alexander learnt Coleridge's masterpiece of a poem, Kubla Khan. Coleridge recalled that it was composed in an opium sleep as he was reading about Kubla Khan. He awoke and wrote fifty-five lines of the poem before being interrupted. Scholars have ever since discussed the contemporary works that had influenced Coleridge. In The Way to Xanadu, a literary travel book, Caroline Alexander recounts her quest across three continents to discover the sources of Coleridge's inspiration. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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She, of course, visits Mongolia, but also Ethiopia, Kashmir, and, surprisingly, Florida.
I enjoyed this book very much. I've loved the poem since I first read it in my early teens, and it made me realize how much this poem has contributed to my own love of the romatic and exotic.
I loved her travels just for the sheer adventure and exoticism alone, but I was also fascinated by the connections she made to Coleridge and what inspired him to write the poem. I believe that most of her conjectures about what inspired Coleridge are accurate. After all she does have a PHD, and has been fascinated with this poem for most of her life, so she would have extensive knowledge of the subject. It seemed that she almost entered Coleridge's head at times.
I found this book to be a wonderfully readable hybrid of flights of fancy to the most exotic of realms and down-to earth historical and biographical details, etc.. This was a unique little book that was a pleasure to read ( )