“The Lantern of Typography”: “Christabel,” “Kubla Khan,” and Poetic Mediation
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Abstract
This article examines the complex performance and publication histories of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's “Christabel” and “Kubla Khan” in order to explore how the transition from manuscript and memory to print could affect the reception of a poem within coteries of Romantic-era readers. These poems make good case studies for examining this question for two principal reasons. First, both circulated for nearly two decades between “the summer of the year 1797” when Coleridge claimed to have written “Kubla Khan,” and May 1816 when John Murray published Christabel, Kubla Khan & The Pains of Sleep. Second, a number of Coleridge's contemporaries left detailed and revealing accounts of the performance and reception of both poems prior to and after their publication. William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Clement Carlyon, Walter Scott, Henry Crabb Robinson, Lord Byron and William Hazlitt are all on record having heard or recited one or both of the poems.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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