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A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted

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“A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The poem fuses beauty, holiness and menace so that the landscape feels simultaneously sacred, supernatural and dangerous.

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“Kubla Khan,” published with Christabel in 1816 and represented in Project Gutenberg #11101. These are lyric-narrative lines describing the “deep romantic chasm”; the supernatural imagery is poetic invention.

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