Quotes from the poem have been included in many novels, including Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1890), Eric Frank Russell's "Next of Kin" (1959), Muriel Spark's "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (1961), Connie Willis' "To Say Nothing of the Dog" (1997), and Meg Cabot's "Avalon High" (2005). In some novels, the poem is also referenced within the plot by characters, as in Nancy Mitford's "Love in a Cold Climate" (1949), Bel Kaufman's "Up the Down Staircase" (1965), Diana Wynne Jones' "Hexwood" (1993), Libba Bray's "A Great and Terrible Beauty" (2003), and Jilly Cooper's "Wicked!" (2006).