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Coleridge has been so called because he “dreamt” his Kubla Khan, and wrote it out next morning. (1772–1834.)
⁂ Probably he had been reading Purchas’s Pilgrimage, for none can doubt the resemblance of the two pieces.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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