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 ...

Marco Polo marveled at the jeweled splendor of Kublai Khan's summer palace, Shang-tu -- the inspiration for the "Xanadu" of English poet Coleridge's work. Polo was also amazed by the indulgent ...

where Coleridge rented a cottage between 1797 and 1800. He is said to have lived there when he penned some of his best-known poems, including the Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Kahn.

Coleridge, the legendary Romantic poet, moved to Nether Stowey in 1796, where he penned iconic works like The Rime of the ...