A stately pleasure dome decree. These words, from English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 1797 poem Kubla Khan, paint a romantic picture of the medieval Chinese emperor Kublai Khan, grandson of the ...

This is the voice of poetry itself. The musicality of the opening lines, the magisterial diction of the second stanza, the prophet’s tone in the third stanza, the enchantment, the sense of spinning ...

SAMUEL Taylor Coleridge’s Kubla Khan is one of the most imaginative poems in English literature. It is, regrettably, also unfinished, since an unexpected caller broke the poet’s train of thought. Here ...

The hypnotic tone poem "The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan" came to American composer Charles Tomlinson Griffes in a dream. And it maintains that dreamy, evocative quality. JoAnn Falletta conducts the ...

A dazzling new exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art displays the cosmopolitanism that flourished during the reign of Kublai Khan, one of the medieval world’s most powerful emperors For ...

African American Review (AAR) is a scholarly aggregation of insightful essays on African American literature, theatre, film, the visual arts, and culture; interviews; poetry; fiction; and book reviews ...

Leading the Mongols to defeat China, Kublai Khan fulfilled his grandfather's ambitions to rule one of history’s largest empires. Kublai Khan’s portrait was painted after his death in 1294 and hangs in ...

Marco Polo premieres this Friday, December 12 on Netflix. While the sprawling series attempts to push us into a new era for streaming, it also takes us back to one of the most exciting times in human ...