Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" has an unusual composition and publication history. It was allegedly written after an opium-induced dream in 1797, but only a fragment was completed before Coleridge was interrupted by a "person from Porlock." The fragment was not published until 1816 in an edition of Coleridge's works, where he provided the famous preface describing the circumstances of the poem's creation. Scholars have debated the accuracy of Coleridge's account and whether the poem was entirely a product of his dream state or revised later. The unusual origins and delayed publication have led to the poem being regarded as cryptic and fragmented, though it may have been more fully realized