The poet laureate of England Tennyson sent the wreath to Victor Hugo’s funeral.
The author of the novel Les Miserables (1862) was also a great lyric poet.
His poetic works included Contemplations (1856).
The name of Don Quixote’s horse was Rocinante. The scrawny old horse and its rider appeared in Cervantes’s Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605, 1615).
Kugelmass has an affair with Emma Bovary in Woody Allen’s short story “The Kugelmass Episode”. The Great Persky projects the bored professor into Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (1856) and Emma Bovary into modern Manhattan.
Dr. Spielvogel is the psychiatrist to whom Alexander Portnoy tells his story in Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint.
The names of the Brothers Grimm were Jacob Ludwig and Wilhelm Carl.
Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida was first performed around 1602 and first published in 1609.
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).