The Road to Xanadu ; Answers to Correspondents

Daily MailMay 05, 2006

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QUESTION

Where is Kubla Khan's Xanadu believed to have been, and where were the Alph, the sacred river, and the sunless sea?

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The Road to Xanadu ; Answers to Correspondents

THE poem Kubla Khan, published in 1816, was written by one of the great English Romantic poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

He was born in Otterley St Mary, Devon, in 1772, the youngest son of the local vicar. His father died when Samuel was nine and he was sent to Christ's Hospital, the famous charity school in London, shortly afterwards.

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