Editing Kubla Khan (section)

=== Other sources ===
Charles Lamb provided Coleridge on 15 April 1797 with a copy of his "A Vision of Repentance", a poem that discussed a dream containing imagery similar to those in "Kubla Khan". The poem could have provided Coleridge with the idea of a dream poem that discusses fountains, sacredness, and even a woman singing a sorrowful song.<ref>Fruman 1971 pp. 345–346</ref>

There are additional strong literary connections to other works, including John Milton's ''Paradise Lost'', Samuel Johnson's ''Rasselas'', Chatterton's ''African Eclogues'', William Bartram's ''[[Bartram's Travels|Travels through North and South Carolina]]'',<ref>Kastner 1977 p. 110</ref>{{NoteTag|In particular, Coleridge's descriptions of the sinuous rills, the scented trees, and the fountain (in fact a substantial upwelling) are close paraphrases of Bartram's description of a swamp location in one of the states he visited.<ref>Kastner 1977 p. 110</ref>}} Thomas Burnet's ''Sacred Theory of the Earth'', Mary Wollstonecraft's ''A Short Residence in Sweden'', Plato's ''Phaedrus and Ion'',<ref>Holmes 1989 p. 164</ref> Maurice's ''The History of Hindostan'', and Heliodorus's ''Aethiopian History''.<ref>Beer 1962 pp. 235, 266</ref> The poem also contains allusions to the Book of Revelation in its description of New Jerusalem and to the paradise of William Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''.<ref>Ashton 1997 pp. 114–115</ref> The sources used for "Kubla Khan" are also used in Coleridge's ''[[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner]]''.<ref>Lowes 1927 pp. 410–411</ref>

Opium itself has also been seen as a "source" for many of the poem's features, such as its disorganized action. These features are similar to writing by other contemporary opium eaters and writers, such as [[Thomas de Quincey]] and [[Charles Pierre Baudelaire]].

Coleridge may also have been influenced by the surrounding of Culbone Combe and its hills, gulleys, and other features including the "mystical" and "sacred" locations in the region. Other geographic influences include the river, which has been tied to Alpheus in Greece and is similar to the Nile. The caves have been compared to those in Kashmir.