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Intertextual references in The Great Gatsby? How does Fitzgerald allude to Wordsworth?

I have to list some allusions to other literary works, as you can see below. My main problem is that I don't really see the connection between Fitzgerald and Wordsworth, but I do get that both share the same romantic sense for the past, especially when Jay is like "of course you can repeat the past"...

- the Bible
- T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
- Gertrude Stein ("a rose is a rose is a rose...", there's a passage in which Daisy repeats the word "rose" three times)

- Thomas Park D'Invillier is made-up and a character in Fitzgerald's first novel

- Byronic Hero (Gatsby is similar to the protagonists of Lord Byron's novels)

- Midas, Morgan and Maecenas

- Stoddard lectures

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I see no allusion to Wordsworth or his works in the text. I will look further, and if I am able to find a connection, I will add it later.