Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0019213, Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:15:43 +0100

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Re: THOUGHT on Shade as poet
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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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