A philosopher who wrote one wonderful novel, The Last Puritan, and a few estimable sonnets, George Santayana.
Walter de la Mare's Memoirs of a Midget is a strange minor classic.
Robert Graves. (!)
Philip Larkin.
Jarrell.
Berryman.
Laura Riding.
H.D.
Djuna Barnes.
Mina Loy.
How strange to think of George Eliot writing verse!
Robert Louis Stevenson.
Some take Swinburne's novels seriously. (Some take even his poetry seriously.)
Best,
Michael Slipp
P.S. Daniel, I love Swinburne. I can see the spine of "Major Poems and Selected Prose" as I type. I thought the comment above was a not half-bad, and entirely easy, witticism.
P.P.S. This could get addictive. Bill Knott and James Tate's
Lucky Darryl; John Ashbery and James Schuyler's A Nest of Ninnies. I hereby lock myself.
[This message has been edited by Mike Slippkauskas (edited March 23, 2006).]
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