An illustration and lettering print of the Kubla Khan poem, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Artist /Typographer: Sailor Danny Mancini
Kubla Khan is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816. According to Coleridge's Preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium-influenced dream after reading a work describing Xanadu, the summer palace of the Mongol ruler and Emperor of China, Kublai Khan.