The poetry Anthony Burgess attributed to Enderby was poetry (heavily influenced by Dylan Thomas) he, Burgess, had published as a dandy student in magazines. Burgess was proud to note that T.S.Eliot marked two of the poems he appended to Enderby Outside as well-written. It was only in The Clockwork Testament or The End of Enderby that he wrote poems specially for this novella and this poetry is awful.

Hafid Bouazza

2010/1/23 A. Bouazza <mushtaree@googlemail.com>
<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.
 
 

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