In fact, the phenomenon has been depicted in numerous paintings, but how have eclipses influenced the most popular artistic creations? ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENTHere is a look at 10 books, nine films and eight songs that, in one way or another, revolve around an eclipse. Diaries (Virginia Woolf) The author of 'Mrs Dalloway' travelled in 1927 to the north of England to witness the first total eclipse visible in the country in almost 200 years. 'Total Eclipse' (Annie Dillard, 1982) This essay, included in the book "Teaching a Stone to Talk", recounts the author's journey to the Yakima Valley in Washington State to observe a total eclipse in 1979. Only a solar eclipse, a day without night and a night without day, allows them to recover their human form at the same time.