When authors give shout outs 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
- John Keats (referenced throughout)
- Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (1.44)
- William Butler Yeats, "News for the Delphic Oracle" (1.91)
- William Shakespeare (2.176) (3.56)
- Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, Broadway lyricist and composer (1.177)
- Neil Simon (1.177)
- Beowulf (2.321) (3.31) (3.304)
- Francis Bacon (3.23)
- Ovid (3.53)
- Hannah Senesh (3.53)
- Homer, The Odyssey (3.54)
- Charles Lamb (3.55)
- Robert Frost (3.56)
- William Wordsworth (3.56)
- William Gass (3.79)
- Plato (3.80)
- Bertrand Russell (3.81)
- Tycho Brahe (3.81)
- Mark Twain (3.92)
- John Milton (3.93)
- Lord Byron (3.93)
- William Butler Yeats (3.93)
- T.S. Eliot (3.93)
- Dylan Thomas (3.93)
- Delmore Schwart (3.93)
- Homer, The Odyssey, translated by F. Scott Fitzgerald (3.117)
- John Bunyon, Pilgrim's Progress (3.135)
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (3.137)
- Mark Twain, Huck Finn (3.297)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (3.391)
- David Hume (3.418)
- H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (3.418)
- Dante Alighieri (4.151)
- Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (4.468)
- Soren Kierkegaard (4.534) (4.621)
- Immanuel Kant (4.534)
- William Butler Yeats, "A Prayer for my Daughter" (4.724)
- John Muir (5.66)
- Ezra Pound (5.354) (5.936)
- William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet (6.143)
Historical References
- Rachmaninoff (Prologue.1)
- Abraham Lincoln (Prologue.17)
- Winston Churchill (Prologue.17)
- Wagner (Prologue.25)
- Battle of Agincourt (beginning of Chapter 2)
- M.C. Escher (3.42)
- The Mayflower (3.59)
- Massachusetts Bay Colony (3.137)
- Hitler (3.139)
- Michelangelo's Pietà (3.467)
- Sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini (5.743)
- Joseph Severn, painter and friend of John Keats (5.750) (5.769) (5.770)
- Bach, Prelude (6.526)
Pop Culture References
- The Wizard of Oz