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The Life of a Literature Lover: Books referenced by Taylor Swift
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items I'll admit it. I'm a swiftie. I have loved Taylor Swift's music for over ten years and I really feel like she's encapsulated girlhood for me. I'm also an avid reader and love finding literary references in media. Figuring out these literary connectio...
This play inspired Love Story (Fearless).
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Referenced in The Best Day (Fearless): “Don’t know if Snow White’s house is near or far away".
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Inspired "Safe & Sound" and "Eyes Open" from the Hunger Games films' soundtracks.
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Referenced in All Too Well (10 Minute Version)(Red): “They say all’s well that ends well, but I’m in a new hell” and in Lover (Lover): "All’s well that ends well to end up with you.”
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
Referenced in Wonderland (1989) throughout the song and in long story short (evermore): “I fell from the pedestal right down the rabbit hole”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Referenced in New Romantics (1989): “We show off our different scarlet letters trust me, mine is better”.
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Referenced in This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (Reputation): “Feeling so Gatsby for that whole year" and Happiness (evermore): “I hope she’ll be a beautiful fool.”
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Referenced in Getaway Car (Reputation): “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Furious Love discusses Elizabeth Taylor, and Richard Burton's relationship which is referenced in “…Ready For It?” (Reputation): “he can be my jailer, Burton to this Taylor”.
Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger
One of the novel's lines is references in Invisible String (folklore): "Isn’t it just to pretty to think all along there was some invisible string tying you to me.”
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Referenced in invisible string (folklore): “All along there was some invisible string tying you to me”," inspired mad woman (folklore), and the fourth-wall breaking title “Dear Reader” (Midnights) is a reference to the novel's line “Reader, I married...
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Inspired mad woman (folklore)
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The poem “The Road Not Taken” is referenced in illicit affairs (folklore): “take the road less traveled by,” The Outside (Taylor Swift): ““I tried to take the road less traveled by," and 'tis the damn season (evermore) “‘I’m staying at my parents’ ho...
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems by Robert Frost
A mythological figure, King Midas, is referenced in Champagne Problems (evermore): “Your Midas touch on the Chevy door.”
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton
Referenced throughout Peter (The Tortured Poets Department) and in cardigan (folklore): "tried to change the ending, Peter losing Wendy".
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
Referenced throughout The Albatross (The Tortured Poets Department)
Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Homer's character Cassandra is the inspiration behind the song Cassandra (The Tortured Poets Department).
The Iliad by Homer
Referenced in I Hate It Here (The Tortured Poets Department): “I hate it here so I will go to secret gardens in my mind People need a key to get to”
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Taylor references the relationship dynamics between Patti Smith and Dylan Thomas that Patti dicusses in this book in The Tortured Poets Department (The Tortured Poets Department): “You're not Dylan Thomas, I'm not Patti Smith. This ain't the Chelsea ...
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Aristotle is referenced in So High School (The Tortured Poets Department): ““You know how to ball, I know Aristotle”.
The Basic Works of Aristotle by Aristotle
The character Ophelia is referenced throughout The Fate of Ophelia (The Life of a Showgirl)
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Referenced in Cancelled! (The Life of a Showgirl): "“Something wicked this way comes.”
Macbeth by William Shakespeare