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.

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Poems (1939)
The Middle of a War (1942)
A Lost Season (1944),
Savage gold (1946)
Epitaphs and Occasions (1949)
Counterparts (1954)
Image of a Society (1956)
Brutus’s Orchard (1957)
Fantasy and Fugue (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)
Lessons of the summer (1987)
The ruined boys (1987)
Consolations (1987)
Available for dreams (1989)
Stares (1990)
Spanner and pen: Post-war memoirs (1991)