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Yosemite National Park, Tuolumne County, California, U.S.
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Sierra Nevada
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USGS Tenaya Lake
Stately Pleasure Dome viewed from the East from the shores of Tenaya Lake.
Stately Pleasure Dome is the unofficial name for the prominent south-southwestern portion of Polly Dome, a granite dome on the northwest side of Tenaya Lake and Tioga Road in the Yosemite high country. Stately Pleasure Dome consists of glaciated and exfoliated granite rock that rises steeply 900 feet (270 m) from the lake shore; the very steep east side of the dome is popular with rock climbers, who gave the dome its name.
The name presumably comes from the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
(emphasis added)[2]
StatelyPleasureDome is the unofficial name for the prominent south-southwestern portion of Polly Dome, a granite dome on the northwest side of Tenaya...
This was the "sumptuous house of pleasure" mentioned by Purchas, which Coleridge transformed into a "statelypleasuredome". In terms of spelling, Coleridge's...
slopes. The southwest end of Polly Dome consists of the StatelyPleasureDome, 740 feet (230 m) lower than Polly Dome, but rising very steeply 900 feet...
Pleasuredome or PleasureDome may refer to: A stately palace built by Khan in "Kubla Khan", a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Pleasuredome (night club)...
to a vivid description of the palace's varied pleasures: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A statelypleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through...
bolts. The major domes include: StatelyPleasureDome Polly Dome Daff Dome Pothole Dome Lembert Dome Fairview Dome See Granite Domes of Yosemite National...
times the size of Vatican City". Quartz. Retrieved 4 July 2013. "Statelypleasuredome New Century Global Center rises in China's Chengdu". The Straits...
the Shining Rocks." This original name is now attached to Pywiack Dome, a granite dome to the east of the lake. As part of the 1864 Yosemite grant, the...
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times". Evening Standard. UK. Cooke, Rachel (15 October 2022). "A statelypleasuredome is reborn in Holland Park". The Observer. "Reopening our doors this...
Tenaya Lake, Pywiack Dome and StatelyPleasureDome are to the southwest; and Fairview Dome and Daff Dome to the northeast. Mariolumne Dome has a number of...
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The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The PleasureDome. Oxford University Press. pp. 138–139. ISBN 0192812866.) Thunder in...
Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562 and retold in prose in Palace of Pleasure by William Painter in 1567. Shakespeare borrowed heavily from both but...
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