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
- Julius Caesar, Gallic Wars (1.1)
- Onan (1.1)
- Eros (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.5)
- John Milton (1.1)
- Robert Southey (1.1)
- Robert Southey, "Thalaba the Destroyer" (1.1)
- Robert Southey, "Madoc" (1.1)
- the Edinburgh Review (1.1, 2.5)
- Sir Walter Scott (1.1)
- Humphry Repton's "Sacred Books of the East" (1.1)
- Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1.1)
- Horace Walpole (1.1, I.4)
- Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1.1)
- John the Baptist (1.1)
- D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love (1.2)
- Just William (1.2)
- Caroline Lamb (1.2, 2.5, 2.7)
- Lord Byron (1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7)
- Brideshead Revisited (1.2)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1.2)
- Virgil (1.2, 1.3)
- Cornhill Magazine (1.2, I.4)
- Thomas Love Peacock (1.2, 2.5)
- Thomas Love Peacock, Headlong Hall (1.2)
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1.2, 2.5)
- Lord Byron, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (1.2, 2.6)
- Lord Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.5, 2.7)
- William Wordsworth (1.2, 1.3)
- Plautus (1.3, 1.4, 2.5, 2.7)
- William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1.3)
- Venus (1.3)
- Queen Dido (1.3)
- Aeschylus (1.3)
- Sophocles (1.3)
- Euripides (1.3)
- Ovid (1.3)
- Samuel Rogers (1.3)
- Thomas Moore (1.3, II.5)
- Marie of Romania (2.5)
- Lord Byron, "She Walks in Beauty" (2.5)
- Book of Job (2.5)
- Lord Byron, "Darkness" (2.7)
- Hobbes, Leviathan (2.7)
- Euclid (2.7)
- Jane Austen (2.7)
Historical References
- Pierre de Fermat (1.1)
- Sir Isaac Newton (1.1, 2.5, 2.7)
- Lord Jeffrey (1.1, 2.5)
- Lord Holland (1.1)
- Salvator Rosa (1.1, 1.2)
- Nicolas Poussin (1.1)
- Brocket Hall (1.2)
- Lancelot "Capability" Brown (1.2, 1.4, 2.5)
- Claude Lorrain (1.2)
- Florence Nightingale (1.2)
- Beau Brummel (1.2)
- Cleopatra (1.3)
- Queen Elizabeth I (1.3)
- Aristotle (1.3, 2.5)
- Archimedes (1.3)
- Pablo Picasso (1.3)
- Albert Einstein (1.4, 2.5)
- Galileo Galilei (1.4, 2.5)
- John Hanson (2.5)
- King Charles II (2.5)
- Newstead Hall (2.5)
- Catherine Gordon, Lady Byron (2.5)
- Gottfried Leibniz (2.5)
- Stephen Hawking (2.5)
- Henry Fuseli (2.5, 2.7)
- Thomas Chippendale (2.5)
- Pericles (2.6)
- Sir Joseph Banks (2.6)
- King George III (2.6)
- Chatsworth (2.7)
- Devonshire House (2.7)
- Duchess of Devonshire (2.7)
- Thomas Newcomen (2.7)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1.3, 2.7)
Pop Culture References
- Brighton and Hove Argus (1.2)
- Journal of English Studies (1.2, II.5)
- Dictionary of National Biography (1.2)
- "Happy Birthday" (1.4)
- Byron Society (2.5)
- "When Father Painted the Parlour" (2.5)
- The Byron Society Journal (2.5)
- The Linnean Society (2.6)
- "The Breakfast Hour" (2.7)
- The Times (2.7)
- Broadwood (2.7)