Coleridge, “Kubla Kahn,” and Opium
Wednesday Noon Lectures | Available
Leigh E. Rich
12:00 – 1:00 pm Wednesday, January 21
Samuel Taylor Coleridge claimed that his unfinished poem “Kubla Kahn” arose from an opium dream. The Lake poet certainly struggled with addiction. Georgia Southern University professor Leigh Rich shows that an embodied sense of Coleridge persists today in a masterpiece that began as “psychological curiosity.”