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A chance to meet porlock's poetry pooper in person

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From: Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
Date: 20070714
Author:Eva Jones [email protected]

He was blamed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge for knocking on the door and making his dream of Kubla Khan vanish, but the notorious "person from Porlock" got a warmer reception from the poet's great-great- great-great grandson yesterday.

PC Richard Coleridge came face to face with a wooden sculpture of the unidentified local worthy when he opened the finish of the 36- mile Coleridge Way at Porlock visitor centre.

But had he called by back in 1797 when his ancestor was writing the poem in a farmhouse between Porlock and Linton, PC Coleridge might have had a professional interest in proceedings.

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