Word: kubla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fancy. If perchance, his own dreams grow dull and old there are always those of others who have captured visions and made literature. It is to one of those glorious dreams of beauty and splendor that The Vagabond turns this noon when he attends Professor Lowes' lecture on "Kubla Khan and Charitable" in New Fogg Other lectures...
...Kubla Khan and Charitable", Professor Lowes, New Fogg Large Lecture Hall...
...Kubla Khan and Christabel", Professor Lowes, New Fogg Large Lecture Hall...
...ROAD TO XANADU-John Livingston Lowes-Houghton Mifflin ($6). In this book Professor Lowes of Harvard aims "to tell the story, so far as I have charted its course, of two of the most remarkable poems in English, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan.'" His chief guide in this hazardous and admirable journey is a notebook of 90 chaotic pages in which Coleridge was accustomed to scrawl the names of books which he had read or intended to read, ideas which he considered shaping into verse, recipes for ginger-wine and other paraphernalia...
...great plenitude. The grief of Achilles over the body of Patroclus; the death of Socrates; "Hark! Hark! the Lark" and "Full Fathom Five"; "Lycidas"; "To Althea from Prison"; Gulliver and the Lilliputians; Tristram and the Ass; the Pibroch of Donuil Dhu; "The Rime of the Ancient Mari-er" and "Kubla Khan"; Lamb's "Gentle Giantess"; Edward John Trelawny on how they burned Shelley's body; a great deal of Keats; more Tennyson; still more Thackeray and Browning and more Dickens than anyone...