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From: Belfast Telegraph
Date: 20080811
Author:BILLY SIMPSON

The 18th century poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, had a reputation of being a bit of a sniffer of, what today would be called, the 'wacky baccy' and to have written much of his poetry under the influence of opium. I've read some of it and I believe it.

The legend is that his masterpiece, 'In Xanadu did Kubla Khan, A stately pleasure-dome decree ...' came to him in a dream and when he woke up he had 300 perfect lines of poetry already written in his head. But he only got 50 or so of them on paper before a tradesman from Porlock interrupted his creative moment with some trivial business matter. ...

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