Title: Not At All Like The Original
Product review: I bought this book based on some of the earlier Amazon.com glowing reviews. I'm not going to say that they were wrong, because appreciation of poetry is subjective. I will offer up, however, that I had a different impression entirely. Delatorre's additional verses have a monotonous regularity of rhythm (as opposed to the sensuous variation of meter in Coleridge's verse) and seem wholey devoted to moralistic sermonizing. This "completion" of Coleridge's poem is not in the least a fulfillment of the almost painfully beautiful images that make up the original Kubla Khan.
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