Artist: W.H. Auden
Author: Wystan Hugh Auden
Year: 1938
Epic poem (35 stanzas) published in '40 about a dull bank clerk and his flirty wife Anna, a recepy for disaster. Auden suggested his poem could use a melody like Frankie And Johnny's.
Covers:
Jan De Wilde [as Walter, Ballade Van Een Goudvis, crediting Auden]
Alex Lifeson [Rush guitarist solo as Victor, title track of his solo album]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)