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28 findings in 11 works

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Wolfe read widely and hid what he read. Over twenty-five years these two lists worked out a good deal of it, and much of what they found is old enough to be out of copyright — so the passage can sit one click from the reader who proposed it. Nothing here is ours, and none of Wolfe's own writing is reproduced.

These are readings, not facts. Every one is a person on a mailing list saying they saw something — sometimes with a long case behind it, sometimes in one line and in passing, and often with the rest of the list arguing back. Whether Wolfe intended any of it is a question the list could not settle and this page does not try to: he was not asked, or was asked and declined to say. So each entry quotes the words it rests on and links to the conversation they came from, and what to make of the connection is yours to decide.

The Bible14

Authorised (King James) Version, 1611 · read it at Wikisource

The Divine Comedy3

Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1867 · read it at Wikisource

The Eclogues1

Virgil, translated by J. W. Mackail · read it at Wikisource

The Aeneid1

Virgil, translated by John Conington, 1866 · read it at Wikisource

The Jungle Book2

Rudyard Kipling, 1894 · read it at Wikisource

The History of Herodotus1

translated by George Rawlinson, 1858 · read it at Wikisource

The Mabinogion1

translated by Lady Charlotte Guest, 1849 · read it at Wikisource

Metamorphoses1

Ovid · read it at Wikisource

The Golden Bough1

James George Frazer · read it at Wikisource

The Odyssey1

Homer, translated by Samuel Butler, 1900 · read it at Wikisource

The Thousand Nights and a Night2

translated by Richard Burton, 1885 · read it at Wikisource

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