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
- The Bhagavad-Gita (Economy.77)
- The Bible (Economy.47-48)
- Thomas Carew, Coelum Britannicum (Economy.111)
- Ellery Channing, "Baker Farm" (Baker Farm.3)
- Confucius, Analects (Economy.15, Where I Lived.20; Solitude.10; Conclusion.14)
- ---. The Great Learning (Where I Lived.14; Higher Laws.9)
- William Gilpin, Remarks on Forest Scenery (House-Warming.13)
- William Habbingdon, "To My Honoured Friend Sir Ed. P. Knight" (Conclusion.2)
- Homer, The Odyssey (Where I Lived.22)
- Homer, The Iliad (Where I Lived.16; Visitors.8)
- Ovid, Metamorphoses (Economy.5, 103; Spring.18, 21)
- Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen (Visitors.5)
- Henry David Thoreau, "On Civil Disobedience" and "Resistance to Civil Government" (Village.3)
- The Vedas (Where I Lived.14; Solitude.11; Higher Laws.8)