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1. Kubla Khan building a house of pleasure 5. Hill of Amara |
Samuel Purchas
5. Hill of Amara
Listing false paradises, Milton mentions Mount Amara in Paradise Lost.
Lowes argues that Amara is pretty close to Abora, the mountain in
Coleridge's poem.
Figuring that Coleridge read that passage in
Milton,
Lowes postulates that Milton's Mount Amara, described as the "supposed" true
Paradise, must have reinforced Coleridge's memory of Purchas (which Lowes
argues Milton also read with care).
Purchas describes "the Hill of Amara":
There are two Temples, built before the Raigne of the Queene of Saba, one
in honour of the Sunne, the other of the Moone, the most magnificent in all
Ethiopia. --Purchas VII 844. |
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