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Did Opium Make Coleridge Forget the Rest of ‘Kubla Khan’?

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Scholars question whether the ‘person from Porlock’ Coleridge blamed for making him lose his train of thought writing ‘Kubla Khan’ was real, or just a convenient phantom scapegoat.

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