The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope: “He knew "Lycidas" by heart; and as for Thumble, he felt quite sure that Thumble was incompetent of understanding a single allusion in that divine poem.”
The Secret History by Donna Tartt: “Of the poem Henry read at Bunny's funeral: "It would have been so easy for him to choose something else ... from Lycidas or the Upanishads or anything, really."”
The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin: “She could memorize and recite numerous poems, including John Milton's Lycidas in its entirety, and was able to quote extensively from Wordsworth, Coleridge, and other Romantic poets.”
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf: “It was LYCIDAS perhaps, and Lamb wrote how it shocked him to think it possible that any word in LYCIDAS could have been different from what it is.”