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In a message dated 1/23/2010 9:47:39 AM Central Standard Time,
mushtaree@GOOGLEMAIL.COM writes:
> <S Gwynn: Other than VN, the only case that comes to mind in which a
> novelist has performed the not incosiderable feat of the former and provided
> the actual poetry is that of Anthony Burgess, who was, of course, as good a
> poet as he was a writer of prose. There may be other examples, but none
> comes to mind.>
>
> E.L. Doctorow's Loon Lake (1980) features a poet, Warren Penfield, and
> chunks of his poetry are liberally distributed over the novel. I read this
> book too long ago, in fact in the mirabilic year of 1984, to pass any
> judgement, but I do recall that the poetry struck me as rather prosaic, very much
> like that of many poets of the second half of the 20th century.
>
> A. Bouazza.
>
I forgot to mention Vikram Seth's novel-in-verse The Golden Gate, which is
written in Onegin stanzas.
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mushtaree@GOOGLEMAIL.COM writes:
> <S Gwynn: Other than VN, the only case that comes to mind in which a
> novelist has performed the not incosiderable feat of the former and provided
> the actual poetry is that of Anthony Burgess, who was, of course, as good a
> poet as he was a writer of prose. There may be other examples, but none
> comes to mind.>
>
> E.L. Doctorow's Loon Lake (1980) features a poet, Warren Penfield, and
> chunks of his poetry are liberally distributed over the novel. I read this
> book too long ago, in fact in the mirabilic year of 1984, to pass any
> judgement, but I do recall that the poetry struck me as rather prosaic, very much
> like that of many poets of the second half of the 20th century.
>
> A. Bouazza.
>
I forgot to mention Vikram Seth's novel-in-verse The Golden Gate, which is
written in Onegin stanzas.
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