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Coleridge: "Christabel" and "Kubla Khan"

"The Ancient Mariner""France: an Ode""Christabel" and "Kubla Khan" "Christabel" and "Kubla Khan" were first printed in 1816, in a pamphlet along with "The Pains of Sleep," a sort of…

Dream (Play)

Conceived by:Louise Westergaard and Jack WranglerLyrics:Johnny MercerDirector and choreography:Wayne CilentoMusic:Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Rube Bloom, Hoagy Carmichael, Walter Donaldson,…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was famous for dreamy and somewhat creepy poems like The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel and Kubla Khan (the last of which he allegedly wrote subconsciously during a…

Lauder, Sir Harry

(Encyclopedia) Lauder, Sir HarryLauder, Sir Harrylôˈdər [key], 1870–1950, Scottish baritone. His original name was MacLennan. Lauder was popular for his singing of ballads and comic songs, many of…

Walt Whitman: A Boston Ballad [1854]

A Boston Ballad [1854]To get betimes in Boston town I rose this morning early, Here's a good place at the corner, I must stand and see the show.Clear the way there Jonathan! Way for the…

Mary Chapin Carpenter

A Place in the WorldColumbia If following up a commercial and critical breakthrough album like Stones in the Road was daunting, it doesn't show on this collection of 12 appealing and…

Gordon, Adam Lindsay

(Encyclopedia) Gordon, Adam Lindsay, 1833–70, Australian poet, b. the Azores. In 1853 he went to South Australia, where he joined the mounted police and later became famous as a steeplechase rider…

William Wordsworth

William Wordworth was one of the great Romantic poets of 19th-century England. His poems celebrated the glories of nature and the human spirit while using the simple language of the "common man" --…

Lou Reed

Name at birth: Lewis Allen ReedGuitarist Lou Reed co-founded and wrote most of the songs for the New York rock group The Velvet Underground (1965-70). The influential band recorded such cult…

Berchet, Giovanni

(Encyclopedia) Berchet, GiovanniBerchet, Giovannijōvänˈnē bĕrkĕtˈ [key], 1783–1851, Italian patriot and poet. He conspired to free Lombardy from Austria and was exiled. He wrote stirring patriotic…