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Opium and the Poet

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The biographer Richard Holmes on the effect taking the drug opium had on Coleridge when he was writing the poem Kubla Khan. Image: Painting of English poet and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834). Photo credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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