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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Coleridge belongs in the company of the great collaborators, the great poet-critics, and—paradoxically—the great popular poets. The paradox is that the most philosophical of philosophical critics, fit for the company

Kubla Khan: or, A Vision in a Dream

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree: 
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through  caverns measureless to man 
  Down to a sunless sea.  
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round;
And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;

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What twentieth-century Southern poet advocated permanent racial segregation earlier in his career, but renounced it later in life and published a book of interviews with African American leaders, including Martin Luther King and Malcolm X?

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