When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.
Literary and Philosophical References
- Virgil (2b.4; 2b.36; 3b.27)
- Lucretius (2b.4; 4b.41; 9b.9)
- Catullus (2b.4; 2b.30; 2b.35; 2b.57; 3b.17)
- Horace (2b.45; 9b.9)
- Tennyson (2b.45)
- Keats (2b.45)
- Matthew Arnold (2b.45)
- Pope (2b.30)
- Dryden (2b.30)
- Lord Byron (3b.3; 3b.10; 3b.16; 3b.18-22; 3b.24; 9b.15; 9b.21; 9b.24; 9b.26; 9b.42)
- Lord Byron, Don Juan (3b.18-19)
- Plato (2b.36; 3b.27; 6b.2; 6b.6; 6b.26)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (9b.15; 9b.21)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Question" (2b.43)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Indian Serenade" (2b.43)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, Stanzas—April, 1814 (9b.46)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Hellas" (9b.55)
- Thomas Gray, "Elegy in a Country Churchyard" (3b.11)
- William Wordsworth, "Upon Westminster Bridge" (4b.1)
- Titian (5b.14)
- T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (6b.22)
- Ajax (6b.27)
- The Week-End Book, "O westron wind" (7b.166)
- William Shakespeare, (2b.30; 3b.20; 6b.26; 7b.23; 8b.2; 8b.35; 9b.42-43)
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet (9b.15; 9b.24)
- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (9b.27; 9b.55)
- William Shakespeare, King Lear (9b.55)
- William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116 (9b.27)
- William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (9b.34)
- Ben Jonson, "To the immortal memorie, and friendship of that noble paire, Sir Lucius Cary, and Sir H. Morison" (9b.31)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (9b.15; 9b.21; 9b.42)
- George Meredith (3b.16; 9b.42)
Historical References
- Alcibiades (6b.27)
- Hector (6b.27)
- Queen Alexandra (1b.63; 2b.7; 2b.9)
- George V (2b.14; 8b.36)
- Richelieu (2b.36; 7b.28)
- Chatham (6b.4)
- William Pitt (6b.4)
- Edmund Burke (6b.4)
- Sir Robert Peel (6b.4)
- Cleopatra (7b.23)
- Napoleon (6b.6; 9b.15)