Inspiration for lyricists can come from basically anywhere – or in Rebecca Black’s case, nowhere – but the prose of some of history’s great authors has stimulated many an artist to pen their own masterpiece. Here we’ve compiled a list of some of the best tracks that reference a classic work of literature. While referencing literature could be seen as a musician’s pretentious attempt to appear clever and well read, there can be no doubt that the following songs are great works of art in their own right. Well, most of them anyway…
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