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
- Socrates (4.52, 53)
- "where are the snows of yesteryear," Ballade des dames du temps jadis, François Villon, translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (5.36)
- Henry James (6.106)
- "Pale beyond porch and portal," Algernon Swinburne, "The Garden of Proserpine" (8.4)
- "sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes," Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (8.82)
- "The world has grown pale with thy breath," Algernon Swinburne, "The Garden of Proserpine" (8.6)
- "Thou still unravished bride of quietness," John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (8.115)
- "alone and palely loitering," John Keats, "La Belle Dame sans Merci"(10.12)
- Racine 10.350
- Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (11.153)
- "the sons of god with the daughters of men," Bible, Genesis (12.152)
- Plato (13.7)
- "O Captain, my Captain," Walt Whitman (13.87)
- Proust (13.255)
Historical and Political References
- Nero (13.62)
- Herbert Kitchener (military general) (1.29)
- Lloyd George (Prime Minister of England) (1.33)
- Horatio Bottomley (politician and writer) (1.35)