Thomas Fleming
Thomas Fleming is president of the Fleming Foundation. He is the author of six books, including The Morality of Everyday Life and The Politics of Human Nature, as well as many articles and columns for newspapers, magazines,and learned journals. He holds a Ph.D. in Classics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a B.A. in Greek from the College of Charleston. He served as editor of Chronicles: a Magazine of American Culture from 1984 to 2015 and president of The Rockford Institute from 1997-2014. In a previous life he taught classics at several colleges and served as a school headmaster in South Carolina
If you haven’t heard it, I recommend Ella’s Harold Arlen song book album, the last and I think best of the songbook series.
(The Ransom poem did not need musical backing.)
“Not need” is a way of saying “can only be travestied.”
I have not heard her album of Harold Arlen, but I believe I can buy it off iTunes.