The Composition and Publication History of Samuel T. Coleridges Kubla

The Myth of Fragmentation - The Composition and Publication History of Samuel T. Coleridges Kubla caravanserai Although the exact date remains un have a go at itn, it is believed that Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote his meter Kubla caravan inn some cadence in the fall of 1797 and began revisions of it in the early spring of 1798. Interestingly, although no original ms has been found, the Crewe Manuscript of Kubla Khan was discovered in 1934. Currently, the Crewe Manuscript is the earliest know version of Kubla Khan and is believed to have been written around 1810. After headmaster Byrons zealous response to Kubla Khan, Coleridge published the poem for the first time in May of 1816 under Byrons publisher John Murray. time the poem was initially bound with two of his other poems Christabel and Pains of Sleep, Kubla Khan was then published in 1828 within Coleridges collection poetic Works. The final publication of Kubla Khan during Coleridges lifetime came in 1834, when a cumulative version of Poetical Works was introduced, which included some of Coleridges early, unpublished works.When Kubla Khan was first published in 1816, contemporary reviewers say the poems fragmentary nature and spoke of its nonsensical style, imagery, and content. The poem was, in a sense, viewed as not a wholly important poem, but only meaningless music. More recent studies by scholarly person E. S. Shaffer asserted that Coleridge intended for Kubla Khan to be a part of his show to create a new kind of epic poem that was to be called The Fall of Jerusalem. Shaffer believes that Coleridge was unable to complete this epic project, and consequently, left Kubla Khan as an epic fragment that has bred a myth of fragmentation that has followed the poem since its initial publi... ...w York Charles Scribners Sons, 1972.Google Image Search. Online. useable at http//images.google.com.Holmes, Richard. Coleridge Early Visions (1772-1804). sweet York Pantheon Books, 1989.Holmes, Richard. Coler idge Darker Reflections (1804-1834). New York Pantheon Books, 1998.Lindgren, Agneta. The Fallen World in Coleridges Poetry. Sweden Lund University Press, 1999.Newlyn, Lucy (editor). The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge. Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2002.Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive. Online. Available at http//etext.lib.virginia.edu/stcColeridge/stc.htmlStillinger, Jack. Coleridge & Textual Instability The Multiple Versions of the Major Poems. New York Oxford University Press, 1994.Supplement to the S. T. Coleridge Archive. Online. Available at http//www.mindspring.com/mtiefert/poetry/coleridge.html