Novelish poets and poetic novelists

[steepholm]

I just posted this query on FB, but on reflection maybe this is a better place....

Good/important poets who were or are also good/important (though not necessarily prolific) novelists? My small-hours list was a very short one for the adult canon: Sir Walter Scott, Emily Bronte, Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, Sylvia Plath, Philip Larkin at a pinch.

Within children's literature one could add RLS, Walter de la Mare, John Masefield, C. Day Lewis, A. A. Milne, Ted Hughes.

I'm sure I've missed out many obvious names. Whom can we add to both lists? (No peeking at reference books or Google-goggling, mind!)

ETA: Suggestions I feel foolish for not putting in the original list: Kipling, Graves, Wilde, Peake, HD, Bryer.

Oh, and Sir Philip Sidney, if Arcadia counts as a novel.

Comments

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I should certainly have thought of him! A few others have also been suggested on FB by now, but the other one I kicked myself hard over was Robert Graves. I comfort myself that this is a small-hours list, made while a cat was stamping on my face - for ever.

[sovay]

I comfort myself that this is a small-hours list, made while a cat was stamping on my face - for ever.

At this point I am very nearly free-associating names on your Facebook, so do not feel bad about the people you did not think of! I don't even have the excuse of a cat!

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Spike Milligan also did both and I consider him important even if no one else does!

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Oh, so do I. A novelist for adults and poet for children, then. (And the other way round for Gertrude Stein!)

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

He also wrote some pretty deep poetry for adults- in 'Small Dreams of a Scorpion.'