Prose works by poets

Not only novels on that thread. also for inst Lowell's plays. I've got Larkin's A Girl In Winter but haven't read it---good?

Heinrich Heine - Travel Pictures
Bei Dao - City Gate, Open Up

Back to reading prose by poets. The Heine is great. Its meant to be an account of journeys around mountains but the poet -- who is so often meant to be focused on a thing, if I were to make this huge assumption -- is relishing the space to not be a poet, to not focus, to let fly. Yet its just about anchored on a concrete reality. Little imagination, just these thought flights.

That said the Dao is structured with chapters titles "Smells", "Sounds"...which allows for something more focused. Really devouring this one.

"Donne's sermons are the only religious prose I really like."

I reread the above and actually there is a sermon by Manley Hopkins that is a really intense bit of writing. The love for God has led to powerful writing and I quite like to explore it. I would do a thread on it if I assemble enough material.

A couple of weeks ago I came across talk of these Baroque Sermona from Padre Antonio Vieira, who is someone Pessoa talked about re-reading in The Book of Disquiet.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ant%C3%B3nio-Vieira-M%C3%B3nica-Leal-Silva-ebook/dp/B079Z9DV5F/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=3BV8ZB3NWHFZT&keywords=antonio+vieira+sermons+english&qid=1669893057&s=books&sprefix=antonio+vieira+sermons+english%2Caps%2C106&sr=1-1