Editing Alexander Selkirk (section)

==In other literary works==
[[File:Alexander Selkirk Title Page.jpg|thumb|Title page from ''The Life and Adventures of Alexander Selkirk, the Real Robinson Crusoe'' (1835), by an unknown author]]
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|[[William Cowper]]'s "The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk" is about Selkirk's feelings as the castaway who lived all alone on the island. This poem gave rise to the common phrase "monarch of all I survey" via the verse:
{{poemquote|I am monarch of all I survey,
My right there is none to dispute;
From the center all around to the sea,
I am the lord of the fowl and the brute.{{sfnp|Ravitch|Ravitch|2006|p=134}}}}
| [[Jorge Luis Borges]] wrote a sonnet named after Selkirk. In it, Selkirk wakes from a dream of the island to find himself "returned to the world of men", and thinks of his past, castaway self as a separate person he wishes to comfort.
| [[Charles Dickens]] used Selkirk as a simile in Chapter Two of ''[[The Pickwick Papers]]'' (1836): "Colonel Builder and Sir Thomas Clubber exchanged snuff-boxes, and looked very much like a pair of Alexander Selkirks—' Monarchs of all they surveyed. {{'"}}{{sfnp|Dickens|1836|p=15}} This is also a reference to William Cowper's poem.{{sfnp|Ravitch|Ravitch|2006|p=134}}
| Poet [[Patrick Kavanagh]] likens his loneliness on the road to that of Selkirk, in his poem "Inniskeen Road: July Evening":
{{poemquote|Oh, Alexander Selkirk knew the plight
Of being king and government and nation.
A road, a mile of the kingdom, I am king
Of banks and stones and every blooming thing.{{sfnp|Regan|2004|pp=402–403}}}}
| In "Etiquette", one of [[W. S. Gilbert]]'s ''[[Bab Ballads]]'', Selkirk is used as a model for the English castaways:
{{poemquote|These passengers, because they clung to a mast,
Upon a desert island were eventually cast.
They hunted for their meals, as Alexander Selkirk used,
But they couldn't chat together—they had not been introduced.{{sfnp|Gilbert|1970|p=274}}}}
| [[Joshua Slocum]] mentions Selkirk in the book ''[[Sailing Alone Around the World]]'' (1900). During his visit to the Juan Fernández Islands, Slocum runs across a marker commemorating Selkirk's stay.{{sfnp|Slocum|1900|p=141}}| [[Diana Souhami]] draws on testimony from Selkirk and many others in her ''Selkirk's Island'' (2001), from a journey to rescue to arrival home and inspiration for the prolific Daniel Defoe.
| In [[Allan Cole]] and [[Chris Bunch]]'s Sten science fiction series, Book Two, ''[[The Wolf Worlds]]'', the Scottish character Alex bemoans their predicament after crash landing: {{"'}}A slack way for a mon,' Alex mourned to himself. 'Ah, didnae ken Ah'd ever been Alex Selkirk. {{'"}}{{sfnp|Bunch|Cole|1984|p=21}}}}