ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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Who wrote ‘Kubla Khan’?
A
Coleridge
B
Shelley
C
Wordsworth
D
Keats
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), published 1816. Coleridge composed ‘Kubla Khan; Or, A Vision in a Dream’ in 1797 under the influence of opium.

Detailed explanation-2: -A poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), published 1816. Coleridge composed ‘Kubla Khan; Or, A Vision in a Dream’ in 1797 under the influence of opium.

Detailed explanation-3: -’Kubla Khan’ was composed in 1797 during an excursion to nearby Linton and the Valley of the Stones. Although Coleridge recited the poem in company on several occasions it was not published until nearly 20 years later, in Poems (1816), in which he referred to it as ‘a psychological curiosity’.

Detailed explanation-4: -He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria.

Detailed explanation-5: -Kubla Khan summary takes us through the beautiful land of Xanadu through its vivid description. It explores the theme of man along with nature. It’s a highly romantic poem focusing on humans and natural forces beautifully.

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