Cultural Allusions in Life After Life
Poetry, Fiction, Philosophy, Mythology, Music, Art, Religion, etc.
John Keats
“The Human Season”
“The Eve of St. Agnes”
“Ode to Autumn”
“Ode to a Nightingale”
John Donne
“The Rising Sun”
“Holy Sonnet: Thou has made me, and shall thy work decay”
Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
Persuasion
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Cymbeline (“Fear No More” poem)
Andrew Marvell
“A Dialogue between the Soul and the Body”
John Milton
“When I consider How My Light is Spent”
T.S. Eliot
The Waste Land
Robert Louis Stevenson
“Tempest Tossed and Sore Afflicted”
Henry James The Golden Bowl
Nietzsche’s The Gay Science
Pindar’s Pythian 2
Winston Churchill’s “Be Ye Men of Valor” speech
The Paladin
The Song of Roland
Cassandra
The Metaphysical Poets (Donne, Herbert, Marvell)