Yesterday I had the Rhett Miller song "Our Love" stuck in my head; some of the lyrics are:
Kafka in his letters to his lover Milena was alive
But he was waiting for a love that never would arrive
Their rendezvous was singular
Her husband was his friend
The reference to Kafka (and Milena Jesenka; story here) got me thinking about other songs with overt literary references. The Simon and Garfunkel song "The Dangling Conversation" came to mind:
And you read your Emily DickinsonI made a list of some others, but what are your favorite literary songs?
And I my Robert Frost
And we note our place with bookmarkers
To measure what we've lost
-Tracy
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