/lit/ - Literature

Some of the greatest men in philosophy, literature, poetry, or art in general are free-masons; and considering the proclivity of Masons to introduce into their works, signs, or rather, references to their Masonry, I can't help but wonder just how much Masonic symbolism pervades the Western Canon unnoticed by we profane...
Surely references, meanings, symbols, etc. lay embedded in works like Voltaire's Candide, Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, Goethe's Faust, or the poetry of Robert Burns―but the question is: where and what are they?
What do you think /lit/?