When poets 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
- The Fourth Ecologue of Nemesianus (epigraph)
- Capaneus (8)
- Homer's Odyssey (9-15, 248)
- Gustave Flaubert (8)
- Sappho (36)
- Greek god Dionysus (37)
- Shakespeare's The Tempest (40)
- Heraclitus (42)
- Apollo (57)
- Horace (62)
- John Ruskin (95)
- Algernon Charles Swinburne (96)
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (97)
- Robert Buchanan (98)
- Elizabeth Siddal (99)
- Edward Burne-Jones (102)
- King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid (painting) (105)
- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (book) (108)
- Dante's Purgatorio (118)
- Ernest Dowson (123)
- Lionel Johnson (124)
- "Bishop Bloughram's Apology" (poem) (166)
- The Book of Acts (Bible) (167)
- "Strategems" by Rémy de Gourmont (182)
- "Complainte des pianos" by Jules Laforgue (210)
- Samuel Johnson (213)
- "Go, Lovely Rose" by Edmund Waller (218)
- J.F. Jacquemart (245)
- Ovid's Metamorphoses (293)
Historical References
- Greek Island of Cos (34)
- Greek island of Samothrace (46)
- Pisistratus (54)
- William Ewart Gladstone (94)
- The Marquis de Gallifet (122)
- Cardinal John Henry Newman (129)
- Rev. Stewart D. Headlam (131)
- Henry Lawes (219)
- Messalina (247)
- Piero della Francesca (257)
- Antonio Pisanello (258)
- The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli (287)
- Friedrich Nietzsche (317)
- Bernardino Luini (382)