Roy Fuller



Roy Broadbent Fuller (11 February 1912 – 27 September 1991) was an English writer, known mostly as a poet.

Life
He was born in Failsworth, 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 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.

Publications

 * 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 (1957)
 * Byron for Today (1958)
 * 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)