Roy Fuller
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Roy Broadbent Fuller (11 February 1912 – 27 September 1991) was an English writer, known mostly as a poet. He was born in Failsworth, near Oldham, in Lancashire, and brought up in Blackpool. He worked as a lawyer (solicitor) for a building society, serving in the Royal Navy 1941-1946.
Poems (1939) was his first book of poetry. He began to write fiction also in the 1950s. As a poet he became identified, on stylistic grounds, with The Movement. He was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University 1968-1973. The poet John Fuller is his son.
[edit] Books
- Poems (1939)
- The Middle of a War (1942)
- A Lost Season (1944),
- Savage gold (1946)
- Epitaphs and Occasions (1949)
- Counterparts (1954)
- Brutus’s Orchard (1957)
- New poems (1968)
- Off course: Poems (1969)
- The carnal island (1970)
- Seen grandpa lately? (1972)
- Song cycle from a record sleeve (1972)
- Tiny tears (1973)
- Owls and artificers: Oxford lectures on poetry (1974)
- Professors and Gods: Last Oxford Lectures on Poetry (1975)
- From the joke shop (1975)
- The joke shop annexe (1975)
- An ill-governed coast: Poems (1976)
- Poor Roy (1977)
- The reign of sparrows (1980)
- Souvenirs (1980)
- Fellow mortals: An anthology of animal verse (1981)
- More about Tompkins, and other light verse (1981)
- House and shop (1982)
- The individual and his times: A selection of the poetry of Roy Fuller (1982) with V. J. Lee
- Vamp till ready: Further memoirs (1982)
- Upright downfall (1983) with Barbara Giles and Adrian Rumble,
- As from the thirties (1983)
- Home and dry: Memoirs III (1984)
- Mianserin sonnets (1984)
- Subsequent to summer (1985)
- Twelfth night: A personal view (1985)
- New and collected poems, 1934-84 (1985)
- Outside the canon (1986)
- Murder in mind (1986)
- The second curtain (1986)
- Image of a society (1987)
- Lessons of the summer (1987)
- The ruined boys (1987)
- Consolations (1987)
- Available for dreams (1989)
- Stares (1990)
- Spanner and pen: Post-war memoirs (1991)
