A Dream of the Moon Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1876 October 8
prose <artist/> <location/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>Brief though it is, this poetical fragment is both rich and strange. In various ways and for several reasons, it inevitably recalls Coleridge's prefatory prose note to his famous dream vision of <xref doc="a."> <title level="wrk">“Kubla Khan” , whose words, according to Coleridge, also came to him not in a dream but as a dream.

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