VICTOR

Created on 11/03/2016
Latest update on 05/11/2023

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:

1972:

Jan De Wilde [as Walter, Ballade Van Een Goudvis, crediting Auden]

1996:

Alex Lifeson [Rush guitarist solo as Victor, title track of his solo album]

Contact


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)

info@originals.be

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