Literature

Here are a list of some of the texts mentioned:

Dante’s Divine Comedy, La Vita Nuova

The Velveteen Rabbit Virtual book

Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge,  Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure

e.e. cummings, Somewhere I have never travelled

John Donne, The Flea

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

Alexander McCall Smith, The Sunday Philosophy Club

Peter Abelard and Héloise, Letters, #6

Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
(This is also a film, starring Julianne Moore and Ralph Fiennes)

Sheldon Vanauken A Severe Mercy

Dante's La Vita Nuova section XIX