• Anne of Avonlea (1909) •
Literary References:
There are various literary references to existing poems,
legends or quotations that Montgomery incorporates into her novels.
Here is a brief list of several literary works mentioned in Anne
of Avonlea.
Chapter 1 (Anne'sstudies):
Aeneid by Virgil (70 B.C.E. - 19 B.C.E.) Latin Poet
Chapter 4 (Mr. Harrison quotes "Spare the rod and spoil the child"):
Proverbs 13:24 - "He that spareth his rod hateth his son"
Chapter 5 ("Shining morning faces", references):
As You Like It (Act ii. Sc. 7.) - "And shining morning face" by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Paradise
Lost by John Milton (1608 - 1674) English poet
Chapter 6 ("Bliss is it on such a day to be alive; but to smell dying fir is very heaven"):
French Revolution - "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,/But to be young was very heaven!" by William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) English Romantic poet
Chapter 7 ("Didn't somebody once define man as a fighting animal?"):
"Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners,
and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts" by
George Santayana (1863 - 1952) Philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist
Chapter 8 (Quotation):
Little
Dorrit - "Prunes and prisms" by
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) English novelist
Chapter 11 (References in Anne's letter to Stella):
St. Thomas à Becket (1118 - 1170)
William Tyndale (1494
- 1536) Religious reformer and scholar
Chapter 12 (Quotations):
Macbeth
- "Minister to a mind diseased" by
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Every
Morning - "Every morn is a fresh beginning,/Every morn is the
world made new" by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (pen name Susan
Coolidge) (1835 - 1905) American children's author
Chapter 13 (Quotation):
"Begone,
Dull Care!"
Chapter 15 (Quotations):
Hamlet
- "Sweet
bells never jangled out of tune" by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
An Autograph - "For
an Autograph" James
Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891) American Romantic poet, critic, satirist, writer,
diplomat, and abolitionist
Chapter 16 (Quotation):
The
Builders - "In the elder days of art,/Builders wrought with
greatest care" by
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
American poet
Chapter 18 (Quotation):
El
Dorado - "Over the mountains of the moon,/Down the valley of the
shadow" by Edgar Allan Poe (1807
- 1882) American poet, short story writer, editor, critic
Chapter 20 (Quotation):
And
Ye Shall Walk In Silk Attire - "silk attire" by Susanna
Blamire (1747 - 1794) poetess
Chapter 21 (Quotation):
Blow,
Bugle, Blow - "horns of elfland" by Lord Alfred
Tennyson (1809
- 1892) English poet
Chapter 24 (Quotations):
Jeremiah
8:22 - "balm in Gilead"
The Excursion
- "the vision and the faculty divine" by William Wordsworth
(1770–1850)
Chapter 25 (Quotation):
The
Tempest (Act iv. Sc. 1) - "such stuff as dreams are made" by
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) English poet and playwright
Chapter 28 (Quotation):
Snow-Bound:
A Winter Idyll - "burst flower-like into rosy bloom" by
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807 - 1892)
Chapter 30 (Quotations):
Revelations 21 - "a bride adorned for her husband"
Divided
- "fairy wedding bells" by Jean Ingelow (1820 - 1897) English
poet and novelist
Bibliography:
Matsumoto, Yuko. "Montgomery Digital Library." The Guide to the
Musical Theatre. 2005. Yuko Matsumoto Homepage. July 27, 2006. <http://homepage3.nifty.com/office-matsumoto/>.