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

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Technically it's a novel - the narrator is called George Sherston, he's brought up by an aunt rather than his mother, he doesn't appear to write poetry, etc etc, though the general narrative is very close to Sassoon's own story. I suppose you could call it a roman a clef; Robert Graves appears as David Cromlech, Bertrand Russell as Thornton Tyrrell - though W. H. R. Rivers is so important that he is depicted under his real name.

Do try it - it's very important to me, though I'm biased by the fact that Sassoon was a second cousin of my grandfather (hence icon).