Samuel T. Coleridge was a brilliant if often erratic writer. Many of his major works were written while "chasing the dragon" (as opium addiction was known at the time). However he was a brilliant poet and his use of particularly vivid imagery was inspired. One of Coleridge's seminal works from that period of his life was a short poem entitled "Kubla Khan" or "a vision in a dream". According to Coleridge, this is but a fragment of the whole... He had imagined an epic work of some two or three hundred lines of poetry while he slept, and upon awakening, immediately attempted to transcribe his dream onto paper. He had written the first three stanzas when he was interrupted by the so-called “Person from Porlock” (wiki) who detained him for more than an hour and subsequently failed to remember the rest of the poem. Is that story true? Or rather; as many have argued, simply an excuse used by Coleridge in an attempt to appease critics of the time. Many of whom, it should be noted, dismissed the poem as literary nonsense. In fact, one of Coleridge's contemporaries...