A line from Mother Goose appears here. The quotation from a children’s chant here is from “Little Cottage in the Wood,” author unknown. A line from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle appears here. A line from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, “The Squyre’s Tale,” appears here. The New Testament, Matthew 8:12, inspired a line here; here is a quotation from I Corinthians 13:9–13. Lady Caroline Lamb’s description of Lord Byron is quoted here. “The bird flies itself to the hunter,” from The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky, was quoted by Sylvia Plath within the text of ther senior honors thesis for Smith College; it appears here and here. “Sometimes one is so defenseless,” which appears here, is from Ingmar Bergman’s film Through a Glass Darkly. The quote “Seek all the fame you will among mortal men … but yield place to the goddess…” here is from Ovid’s myth of Arachne in his Metamorphoses, translated by Frank Justus Miller, Loeb Classical Library, first published in 1916. The quote by St. Thérèse here is from her autobiography, Story of a Soul, published in 1898. The passage here is from a fifteenth-century German chorale, author and translator unknown, entitled “Est is ein Ros’ Entsprungen.”

Sylvia parodies a line form The Tempest by William Shakespeare here; The Tempest is also quoted here and here. King Lear is quoted here and opens chapter 34, through which appear four additional passages from the play. Two quotations form King Lear appear in chapter 41 as well.

A quotation from William Butler Yeats’s Unicorn from the Stars appears here as well as here. A line from “Two Songs from a Play” appears here. The poem “My House” is quoted here and, in longer form, here. Yeats’s epitaph appears here. The first three lines of the poem “In Memory of Major Robert Gregory” appear here. here is quoted an inscription on the wall at Yeats’s home, Thoor Ballylee, in County Galway, Ireland. The quotation here is from “Coole Park & Ballylee, 1931.” “Leda and the Swan” is quoted here. I thank Scribner for permission to reprint passages from The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume I: The Poems, Revised, edited by Richard J. Finneran. Full copyright information for works excerpted within this text can be found on the copyright page.

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