Influences:Literature and Music Italian opera:"Were it not for the opera,I could never have written Leaves of Grass. ● Shakespeare,especially Richard III. 。The Bible Thomas Carlyle's Sartor ResartusInfluences: Literature and Music l Italian opera: “Were it not for the opera, I could never have written Leaves of Grass.” l Shakespeare, especially Richard III. l The Bible l Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus