• Book cover of 'Taylor Swift by the Book' with a portrait of Taylor Swift and decorative elements on a green background.
  • An open book or booklet showing a printed table of contents on warm cream paper, with headings such as Introduction, Bildungsroman Era, Fairy Tale Era, Modernist Era, Decadent Era, Sentimentalist Era, Romantic Era, Gothic Era, Postmodernist Era, Afterword, Glossary, and Index.
  • Book pages with a pale pink background, featuring an illustrated scene on the left with a green acoustic guitar, a woman resting beside it, yellow flowers, musical notes, handwritten sheet music, and brown boots. On the right is the title 'Bildungsroman Era' and a block of German text, plus a butterfly illustration in the lower right corner.
  • Book pages titled 'Taylor Swift or Shakespeare?' with two columns of text, featuring a tan background and decorative blue-gray borders at the top and bottom.
  • Back cover of a book featuring a pale green background with an ornate floral border and a central oval frame. The cover includes descriptive text about Taylor Swift and Cassandra Peterson, a barcode, and the Quirk Books logo.
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Taylor Swift by the Book by Rachel Feder, Tiffany Tatreau

Taylor Swift by the Book by Rachel Feder, Tiffany Tatreau

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From a Robert Frost poem on her debut album to the myth of Cassandra on The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift’s lyrics are filled with literary connections.

Make sure you’re catching them all with this expert guide to the novels, poems, and plays that influence her songwriting.

“Even the most obsessive Swiftie will discover new Easter eggs in these pages.”—Oprah Daily

Taylor Swift by the Book: The Literature Behind the Lyrics, from Fairy Tales to Tortured Poets is an entertaining and insightful guide to the novels, poems, myths, and literary influences hidden throughout Taylor Swift’s songwriting. Written by literature professor Rachel Feder and musical theater artist Tiffany Tatreau, this fan-friendly deep dive helps Swifties uncover the literary Easter eggs woven across Taylor’s iconic discography. 

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