Coleridge and the case of the "Kubla Khan" dream vision

Β On the dream vision of Samuel T. Coleridge and the composition of "Kubla Khan", a poem left unfinished due to the sudden visit of the mysterious "person from Porlock": an illustrative literary case oflla "other" nature of the poetic inspiration on which, among others, Jorge Luis Borges and Fernando Pessoa have written.

Arthur Machen and the awakening of the Great God Pan

The recent reprint of Arthur Machen's "folk horror" masterpiece allows us to shed light on one of the most fascinating phenomena of "pagan rebirth" in the modern West: the awakening of the Great God Pan in Victorian England, at the turn of the 800th century. and the '900.