In The Iliad (ninth century B.C.), what goddess is Aeneas’s mother?

The young man Goethe is the protagonist of two novels, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1795-96) and Wilhelm Meister’s Travels, or The Renunciants (1829).

Finnegan in Finnegans Wake is an Irish hod carrier who dies after a fall. At his wake, he is momentarily returned to life at the mention of the word “whiskey.” The name also refers to legendary Irish hero Finn MacCool, who is supposed to “wake again” someday to save Ireland.

In Robert Browning’s poem, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” (1855), Childe Roland is a knight errant in search of the Dark Tower. When he reaches it he blows his horn, the poem ends. The title comes from a piece of a song in Shakespeare’s King Lear (act 3, scene 4).

In Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (1952), Santiago catches a marlin.

The sequel to Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward is Equality (1897).

Sir Edward Dyer said, “My mind to me a kingdom is” in his 1588 poem of the same name.