Alexander's Bridge - Allusions To Other Works

Allusions To Other Works

  • Music is mentioned with Robert Schumann's Carnaval and Giuseppe Verdi's Il Trovatore.
  • Literature is mentioned with William Shakespeare's Sonnets and Ernest Dowson. There is also a quotation from Milton's Il Penseroso: 'Forget thyself to marble'.

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