Word: xanadu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis, Xanadu, who decreed a stately pleasure near the sacred river Alph...
...enemy has just laid down a barrages of byrons and keats. We have sustained a number of flesh wounds. The fire seems to our lookout to be proceeding from a small protuherance on the road to Xanadu...
...much fear you will be disappointed in the quality of the Coleridge items, but shall be a very happy person indeed were any of this material to prove of the smallest help to Professor Lowes in his forthcoming book." This "forth-coming book" was the recently published Road to Xanadu. And indeed, in writing it, Professor Lowes made great use of the books received from Norton Perkins...
...Room of Widener Library, a book received yesterday from the library of the late Norton Perkins '98. For this volume, the library has had printed a book blate bearing the following inscription: "In memory of Norton Perkins '98, and in honor of John Livingston Lowes and his 'Road to Xanadu...
...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...