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

[wolfinthewood.livejournal.com]

I don't know what has been listed on your Facebook page, but has anyone mentioned Sylvia Townsend Warner? George Mackay Brown?

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

How on earth did I forget GMB!?

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

STW popped into my head, but I wasn't 100% sure she was a poet.

[wolfinthewood.livejournal.com]

Seven volumes of poetry between 1925 and 1968. Very fine, in my view. Two separate posthumous editions of her collected poems: 1982 and 2008.

Naomi Mitchison is another novelist-poet from the same generation.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Thank you - and for Mitchison, again known to me only as a novelist.