Sujet
Porlock, Somerset, c1955. Creator: Arthur Charles Kirby Ware.
Légende
Porlock, Somerset, c1955. The "person on business from Porlock" was an apocryphal unwelcome visitor to Samuel Taylor Coleridge during his composition of the poem "Kubla Khan" in 1797. Coleridge claimed to have perceived the entire course of the poem in a dream (possibly an opium-induced haze), but was interrupted by a visitor who came "on business from Porlock" while in the process of writing it. "Kubla Khan", only 54 lines long, was never completed. Thus "person from Porlock", "man from Porlock", or just "Porlock" has come to be a literary allusion to unwanted intruders who disrupt inspired creativity.
Date
1955
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Ware in the World
Notre référence
HRM26A36_219
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
67.8Mo (4.0Mo) / 47.0cm x 36.2cm / 5550 x 4272 (300dpi)