Elfride Swancourt, a Cornish clergyman's daughter, is torn between the young architect Stephen Smith and his older mentor, the exacting reviewer Henry Knight, with tragic consequences.
Books mentioned in A Pair of Blue Eyes (3)
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: “…which read like flat copies of like scenes in the stories of Mr. G. P. R. James, and the most unreal portions of IVANHOE.”
The Three Graves by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “she could not help thinking of Coleridge's morbid poem 'The Three Graves,' and shuddering as she wondered if Mrs. Jethway were cursing her, she wept as if her heart would break.”
Paradise Lost by John Milton: “Knight could not keep from his mind the words of Adam's reproach to Eve in PARADISE LOST, and at last whispered them to himself--”
Books that mention A Pair of Blue Eyes (1)
Like by Ali Smith: “'An aged-looking Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes (I'd read it already ...)'”