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#KublaKhan #Coleridge In my MA, as a student, a professor taught me in 1992 that Coleridge took opium and wrote the poem, Kubla Khan, under the influence of opium. In my class of 35 students, except Debangshu Kerr and I, no student loved the poem. 1/
While we took the jam-packed public transport bus from Jamia Millia Islamia University to AIIMS, to home, Debangshu and I would discuss Coleridge's Kubla Khan. We were not convinced it was opium induced poem. 2/
We had CM Bowra's book, The Romantic Imagination and a book, Coleridge the Visionary by John Beer and our professor. But somehow I wasn't convinced. Anyway, we wrote in the examinations what best we knew. 3/
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