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By Juliette Tang - August 23, 2005

The debate over the fragmentary nature of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" has continued from the time the poem was written in 1797 to the present day. Some critics believe "Kubla Khan" to be a complete work in its totality, while others argue that it is merely an unfinished fragment, a curiosity. The reductionist view of "Kubla Khan" as…

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