The Waves Allusions & Cultural References

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.

Virgil (2b.4; 2b.36; 3b.27)
Lucretius (2b.4; 4b.41; 9b.9)
Catullus (2b.4; 2b.30; 2b.35; 2b.57; 3b.17)
Horace (2b.45; 9b.9)
Tennyson (2b.45)
Keats (2b.45)
Matthew Arnold (2b.45)
Pope (2b.30)
Dryden (2b.30)
Lord Byron (3b.3; 3b.10; 3b.16; 3b.18-22; 3b.24; 9b.15; 9b.21; 9b.24; 9b.26; 9b.42)
Lord Byron, Don Juan (3b.18-19)
Plato (2b.36; 3b.27; 6b.2; 6b.6; 6b.26)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (9b.15; 9b.21)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Question" (2b.43)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Indian Serenade" (2b.43)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Stanzas—April, 1814 (9b.46)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Hellas" (9b.55)
Thomas Gray, "Elegy in a Country Churchyard" (3b.11)
William Wordsworth, "Upon Westminster Bridge" (4b.1)
Titian (5b.14)
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (6b.22)
Ajax (6b.27)
The Week-End Book, "O westron wind" (7b.166)
William Shakespeare, (2b.30; 3b.20; 6b.26; 7b.23; 8b.2; 8b.35; 9b.42-43)
William Shakespeare, Hamlet (9b.15; 9b.24)
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (9b.27; 9b.55)
William Shakespeare, King Lear (9b.55)
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116 (9b.27)
William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (9b.34)
Ben Jonson, "To the immortal memorie, and friendship of that noble paire, Sir Lucius Cary, and Sir H. Morison" (9b.31)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (9b.15; 9b.21; 9b.42)
George Meredith (3b.16; 9b.42)

Alcibiades (6b.27)
Hector (6b.27)
Queen Alexandra (1b.63; 2b.7; 2b.9)
George V (2b.14; 8b.36)
Richelieu (2b.36; 7b.28)
Chatham (6b.4)
William Pitt (6b.4)
Edmund Burke (6b.4)
Sir Robert Peel (6b.4)
Cleopatra (7b.23)
Napoleon (6b.6; 9b.15)