The "person on business from Porlock" was an unwelcome visitor to Samuel Taylor Coleridge during his composition of the poem Kubla Khan in 1797. Coleridge...
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farm house between Porlock and Lynton", was interrupted during composition of his poem Kubla Khan by "a person on business from Porlock", and claimed he...
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Kubla Khan (category Use British English from September 2013)
writing lines of poetry that came to him from the dream until he was interrupted by "a person on business from Porlock". The poem could not be completed according...
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Shangdu (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Unfortunately Coleridge's writing was interrupted by an unnamed "person on business from Porlock", causing him to forget much of the dream, but his images of...
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The Valley of Fear (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
a 2022 stage adaptation by the Blackeyed Theatre Company. "Person on business from Porlock" Klinger, Leslie (ed.). The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes,...
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Doyle Porlock Bay, on the Bristol Channel Porlock Bay, Papua New Guinea Porlock Hill Porlock Ridge and Saltmarsh Person on business from Porlock, a man...
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Laudanum (category Articles with dead external links from February 2020)
middle of an opium-induced writing session of Kubla Khan by "a person on business from Porlock". Initially a working class drug, laudanum was cheaper than...
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
Xanadu, was said to have been interrupted by the arrival of "a person on business from Porlock" – an event that has been embellished upon in such varied contexts...
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stanzas) as the Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie, in the Morning Post, on 21 December 1799: included (as Love) in the Lyrical Ballads of 1800, 1802...
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Coleridge and opium (category Use dmy dates from April 2022)
he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room found, to his no...
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