Good Novelist, Rotten Poet
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steepholm is drawing up a list of good novelists who also wrote good poems. It's surprisingly long.One might also draw up a list of good novelists who wrote- and published- rubbish poems- but it would be a thankless task- because who has the energy or patience to wade through volumes of dead-alive verse to make sure it's really as awful as one suspects?
Has anyone here read any of George Eliot's verse? There's a lot of it.
James Joyce wrote lyrics. They're horrible. Twee, post-pre-Raphaelite noodlings. I've wondered if he was taking the piss, but apparently not.
Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a lot of poems. I've dipped, read a stanza or two, promptly forgotten all about them.
Ford Madox Ford rated himself as a poet. I've a suspicion that might be worth following up. I've seen him in anthologies...
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Date: 2014-08-01 04:50 pm (UTC)He's very hit and miss I think- at least that's the case with his comedy.
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Date: 2014-08-01 04:49 pm (UTC)A Dead Statesman
Date: 2014-08-01 09:15 pm (UTC)And so I lied to please the mob
And now my lies are proved untrue
So I must face the men that I slew
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
Those words were so powerful I put them to music. He lost his son at the battle of Loos in 1915.
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