Index of Allusions

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Index of literary authors and works alluded to. Most of the allusions are simple, but a few are obscure and may be hard to see in the poem. 19 of the 86 poems are indexed here.

Authors Alluded To

Alexander Pope Literature Trivia Alexander Pope Examines the RIP Bill Alfred Tennyson Loved and Lost Proposed New Air Force Motto anonymous Jesus Dance Mad Song Arthur C. Clarke Who Can Know? Brewster Higley The Flying Dugong e.e. cummings In the Best Modern Way Emily Dickinson How You Feel When You're Middling Good Emma Lazarus Dream: The Roads of Colossi Ezra Pound In the Best Modern Way Felicia Dorothea Hemans Mutation and Recombination Francis Scott Key The Flying Dugong George Leybourne The Flying Dugong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Mutation and Recombination Hesiod Launch the Fireworks! Homer Literature Trivia Afflatus John Donne Metaphysical Poets Summarized John Keats Romanticism Summarized Red-Winged Blackbirds Matthew Arnold A Word to Matthew Arnold Mervyn Peake Who Can Know? Mother Goose Mutation and Recombination Rainer Maria Rilke New Formalists Robert Frost Literature Trivia Samuel Taylor Coleridge Mad Song Stephen Foster The Flying Dugong T.S. Eliot In the Best Modern Way W.B. Yeats New Formalists In the Best Modern Way William Shakespeare Literature Trivia How You Feel When You're Middling Good

Titles Alluded To

2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke) Who Can Know? Archaischer Torso Apollos (Rainer Maria Rilke) New Formalists The Arrow and the Song (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) Mutation and Recombination The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck (Felicia Dorothea Hemans) Mutation and Recombination The Charge of the Light Brigade (Alfred Tennyson) Proposed New Air Force Motto An Essay on Criticism (Alexander Pope) Literature Trivia Gormenghast (Mervyn Peake) Who Can Know? Hamlet (William Shakespeare) Literature Trivia Home on the Range (Brewster Higley) The Flying Dugong I Cannot Dance upon My Toes (Emily Dickinson) How You Feel When You're Middling Good In Memoriam (Alfred Tennyson) Loved and Lost The Last Word (Matthew Arnold) A Word to Matthew Arnold The Man on the Flying Trapeze (George Leybourne) The Flying Dugong Mary Had a Little Lamb (Mother Goose) Mutation and Recombination The New Colossus (Emma Lazarus) Dream: The Roads of Colossi Nothing Gold Can Stay (Robert Frost) Literature Trivia Ode on a Grecian Urn (John Keats) Red-Winged Blackbirds Ode to a Nightingale (John Keats) Romanticism Summarized The Odyssey (Homer) Afflatus The Pied Piper of Hamelin (anonymous) Jesus Dance Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Mad Song The Second Coming (W.B. Yeats) New Formalists The Star Spangled Banner (Francis Scott Key) The Flying Dugong The Sun Rising (John Donne) Metaphysical Poets Summarized The Tempest (William Shakespeare) How You Feel When You're Middling Good Tom O' Bedlam's Song (anonymous) Mad Song Willie Has Gone to the War (Stephen Foster) The Flying Dugong Works and Days (Hesiod) Launch the Fireworks!