Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

Kubla Khan

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Anthony Esolen
Feb 08, 2023
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Have you ever woken up from a particularly fascinating and vivid dream, then gotten distracted for a few minutes, and just when you’re about to tell somebody about it, it seems to have vanished into thin air — and you try to recall it, but all you get is a fallen leaf here and a bit of tissue paper there, nothing solid to grab hold of? Well, imagine tha…

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