David Malouf--of his novels I love best the wonderful An Imaginary Life, about Ovid.
Vikram Seth--though it's cheating of me to cite him as I haven't yet read The Golden Gate, but if he's anywhere near as good a poet as he is a novelist and memoirist, that will be enough.
Mention of George MacDonald made me think of C.S.Lewis, who wanted to be a poet above all at the begining of his career, and a few of whose poems are good..but perhaps not enough of them to really qualify...
And then there's G.K.Chesterton.
Christine
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