Thanks, Gregory, for reaffirming Vikram Seth----I really will have to take down Golden Gate from my bookshelf now and read it...
Isn't Nabokov up there with Hardy, Lawrence and Seth as being equally good at both? But then I guess it's a problem that lots--most?--of his poetry was in Russian.
He is in a special category for having novel and poetry in the same book--Pale Fire!
Of course, so does A S Byatt in Possession--but the poems in it are pastiche of a certain type of poem--whether good in their own right I don't remember--I probably skimmed them because I was so caught up in the story! (Dreadful confession.)
what abt Stevie Smith as a poet-novelist?
Christine
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