Writers have gotten lots of mileage out of that Yeats poem…
I didn’t know that. Makes me want to go see it. But mimsy is an adjective. Shouldn’t it be “The Last Borogrove”?
**Through a Glass Darkly ** is from 1 Corinthians 13:12.
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
That chapter is chockful of notable quotes so others may have been used elsewhere.
Even Robert Bork! http://www.amazon.com/Slouching-Towards-Gomorrah-Liberalism-American/dp/0060573112/ref=sr_1_1/002-0433889-9797621?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1174396117&sr=8-1
The Borogroves are notoriously shy. Probably wouldn’t play ball with the studio.
One I should have remember but didn’t so I am bringing this back.
The longest running play in history Agatha Christie’s Mousetrap was taken from Hamlet. When the king asked Hamlet what the name of the play that was going to be performed was, Hamlet said “Mousetrap”, so Christie took the title and put it to her play.
Ben Bova’s “As on a Darkling Plain” comes from a line in the poem Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold.
ETA: D.G. Compton’s “Farewell, Earth’s Bliss” comes from the poem In Times of Pestilence by Thomas Nashe.
This poem was also referenced in the Martin Cruz Smith novel “Nightwing.”
Owen’s (arguably) most famous poem, Dulce et Decorum Est, is a reference to Horace.