Editing Nunc dimittis (section)

==Literary settings==
* [[Thomas Jefferson]], Letter to [[Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette|Marquis de Lafayette]] (17 May 1816), Joseph Cabell (31 January 1821), and General Andrew Jackson (18 December 1823)
* [[T. H. White]] novel ''[[The Once and Future King]]'' – recitation by [[Merlin|Merlyn]]
* [[T. S. Eliot]] poem ''[[A Song for Simeon]]'' (1928)
* [[Joseph Brodsky]] poem "Nunc Dimittis" (1972)
* [[Ezra Pound]] poem "Cantico del Sole" (1918)
* [[Karel Čapek]] play ''[[R.U.R.]]'' (1920)
* [[Roald Dahl]] short story "[[Nunc Dimittis (short story)|Nunc Dimittis]]" (1953–1979)
* [[Tanith Lee]] story "[[Dreams of Dark and Light: The Great Short Fiction of Tanith Lee|Nunc Dimittis]]" (1984–1986)
* [[Walter M. Miller Jr.|Walter Miller]], ''[[A Canticle for Leibowitz]]'' (1959)
* [[John le Carré]] novel ''[[A Murder of Quality]]'' (1962)
* [[John le Carré]] novel ''[[Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy]]'' (1974) – closing theme of TV adaptation
* [[John le Carré]] novel ''[[The Constant Gardener]]'' (2001) – sung at the funeral of Tessa Quayle
* [[H. W. Brands]] novel '' [[The Strange Death of American Liberalism]]<ref name="Brands2003">{{cite book|last=Brands|first=H. W. |title=The Strange Death of American Liberalism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yMSpsHEXND0C|year=2003|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-09824-2}}</ref>''
* [[David Mitchell (author)|David Mitchell]] novel ''[[Cloud Atlas (novel)#The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing (Part 1)|Cloud Atlas]]'' – "Pacific journal of Adam Ewing, part 1"
*[[Edith Pargeter]] novel, writing as Ellis Peters in the 6th and 15th volumes of "[[The Cadfael Chronicles]]", ''[[The Virgin in the Ice]]'' and ''[[The Confession of Brother Haluin]]''