Samuel Taylor Coleridge claimed to have conceived “Kubla Khan” in an opium-induced dream and that a “person on business from Porlock” had interrupted him, causing his recollection of the dream to vanish. Some scholars believe this was an excuse for not completing the poem, of which Coleridge wrote 54 lines.
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