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]

There are certainly poems in some of MacDonald's books (Phantastes has some rather long ones - I set the ballad of Sir Aglovaile when I was a teenager), though I'm not sure if any were published separately. A bit like the case of Lewis Carroll in that respect, I suppose.

[wolfinthewood.livejournal.com]

Actually Macdonald published several volumes of rather mediocre verse. Project Gutenberg has the Poetical Works:

Volume 1

Volume 2

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Perhaps he falls at the 'good/important' fence, then?