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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