Author: Dori Jones Yang

Cites

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1)
  • IN: Daughter of Xanadu (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan 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 round: And here were gardens bright with sinuous tills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery....
    FROM: "Kubla Khan:, (1816), Poem, UK
• Marco Polo (1)
  • IN: Daughter of Xanadu (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And when you have ridden three days from the city last mentioned, between north-east and north, you come to a city called Chandu, which was built by the Kaan now reigning. There is at this place a very fine marble Palace, the rooms of which are all gilt and painted with figures of men and beasts and birds, and with a variety of trees and flowers, all executed with such exquisite art that you regard them with delight and astonishment. Round this Palace a wall is built, inclosing a compass of 16 miles, and inside the Park there are fountains and rivers and brooks, and beautiful meadows...
    FROM: The Travels of Marco Polo, (1300), Book, Italy