Roy Fuller

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Roy Fuller

Roy Broadbent Fuller (11 February 1912 – 27 September 1991) was an English writer, known mostly as a poet. He was born in Failsworth, Lancashire, and brought up in Blackpool, Lancashire. 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. In 1966 Anthony Powell dedicated to Fuller his novel The Soldier's Art, the eighth volume of his masterwork, A Dance to the Music of Time.

Books

• Poems (1939)
• The Middle of a War (1942)
• A Lost Season (1944),
• Savage Gold (1946)
• With My Little Eye (1948)
• Epitaphs and Occasions (1949)
• The Second Curtain (1953)
• Counterparts (1954)
• Image of a Society (1956)
• Brutus’s Orchard (1957)
• Fantasy and Fugue (1956) [This was republished as Murder in Mind.]
• Byron for Today (1958)
• Buff (1965)
• 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)
• Lessons of the Summer (1987)
• The Ruined Boys (1987)
• Consolations (1987)
• Available for Dreams (1989)
• Stares (1990)
• Spanner and Pen: Post-war memoirs (1991)