The Field Mice have always reminded me of Calvin And Hobbes.

When I first started reading Mary Webb, I was struck with how much it reminded me of a lot of Joanna Newsom.

Although the beginning of Newsom's song 'Sawdust & Diamonds' mostly gives me a Winnie-The-Pooh/Christopher Robin vibe:
"From the top of the flight
Of the wide, white stairs
Through the rest of my life
Do you wait for me there?"

Calvin and Hobbes, while funny, is hardly literature.

umm, well to be really obvious Nirvana and Modest Mouse have always reminded me Catcher in the Rye.

I never think of literature or poetry while listening to music but that's just me.

west coast cool jazz = the beats

chet baker, stan getz, art pepper, shelly manne, bud shank

it demands howl or some zen-like gary snyder

daddy-o

I use the term in the informal sense where it refers to any form of novel, poetry, short story, comic, etc.




I don't do it purposefully or often but these few have popped up from time to time.

wtf?

Moonlight - MONO

A Perfect Day for BananaFish - Salinger.

An obvious one:
"A Child's Christmas In Wales" by John Cale reminds me of Charles Dickens.

Literally of literature:

Alan Parsons Project - Tales Of Mystery And Of Imagination (all Poe)
Greg Brown - Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience (all Blake)

Interesting connection, considering Dylan Thomas wrote it.

Um... yeah.
Well.
That says a little something about, um... Charles Dickens, eh?


(Or that I have never read anything by either author... although I do have A Tale Of Two Cities queued up for reading within the next month or so.)

I thought that might be a mistake.
Although it is what I think of, poorly read as I am, when it comes to classic English (British/Irish/Scottish) literature.

poe "haunted"

Jimmy Eat World "Goodbye Sky Harbor" -> John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meaney

A lot of Death Cab for Cutie is VERY Dave Eggers. You decide whether or not that's a compliment.

The band Augie March is named for a Bellow's novel. So I think of that.

The Smiths / Morrissey = Oscar Wilde

pff.

<flamboyant hand gestures>

In my experience that is untrue. I've met many secure little girls, little boys, and non-12 year olds at all who listen to it as well.

I lollered.

I guess this is the thread where we 1) demonstrate our manalicious testosterone by bagging on Morrisey and 2) display our erudite pedantry. I've fought a lifetime against the posturing limitations of (1) but am a world-class perp on (2).

British literature in general refers to the British Isles (England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland). The Irish would certainly ask, however that they have their own field of study (which becomes problematic when many great "British" writers are, either by birth or ethnicity, Irish... Swift, Wilde et. al.).

Given that, "English", "Welsh" and "Scottish" literatures are subsets of "British Literature." At least until the past 20-30 years when post-colonialism quite correctly fucks everything up.

Now I am going to go listen to the The Smiths because Johnny Marr always could kick Cinderella/Motley Crue/Great White/Ratt's ass... although Lita Ford was pretty hot.

Even Mick Marr?

whoa.

(FT demonstrating erudite pedantry..)

Point(s) well taken.