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Roy Fuller (1912-1991). Courtesy CliveJames.com.

Roy Broadbent Fuller (11 February 1912 - 27 September 1991) was an English poet and novelist.[1]

Life[]

Fuller was born in Failsworth, Lancashire, and brought up in Blackpool. He became a solicitor in 1934, and joined the Woolwich Equitable Building Society as assistant solicitor in 1938. During World War II he served in the Royal Navy as a radar mechanic and officer, 1941-1946. After the war he returne to the building society, becoming its solicitor in 1958.[1]

Poems (1939) was his debut collection of poetry. He began to write fiction in the 1950s.

Poet John Fuller is his son.

Writing[]

As a poet Fuller became identified, on stylistic grounds, with The Movement.

Recognition[]

Fuller was elected Oxford Professor of Poetry in 1968, and served until 1973.

Fuller was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1970 and the Cholmondeley Award in 1980.[2]

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[]

Poetry[]

  • Poems. London: Fortune Press, 1939.
  • The Middle of a War. London: Hogarth Press, 1942.
  • A Lost Season. London: Hogarth Press, 1944.
  • Epitaphs and Occasions. London: John Lehmann, 1949.
  • Counterparts. London: D. Verschoyle, 1954.
  • Brutus’s Orchard. London: Deutsch, 1957.
  • Collected Poems, 1936-1961. London: Deutsch, 1962.
  • Buff: Poems. London: Deutsch, 1965.
  • New poems. London: Deutsch, 1968.
  • Off Course: Poems. London: Turret Books, 1969.
  • Penguin Modern Poets 18 (by A. Alvarez, Roy Fuller, & Anthony Thwaite). Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1970.
  • Song Cycle from a Record Sleeve. Oxford, UK: Sycamore Press, 1972.
  • Tiny Tears. London: Deutsch, 1973.
  • From the Joke Shop. London: Deutsch, 1975.
  • The Joke Shop Annexe. Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1975.
  • An Ill-Governed Coast: Poems. Sunderland, UK: Ceolfrith, 1976.
  • Poor Roy. London: Deutsch, 1977.
  • The Other Planet, with three other fables (with engravings by Paul Peter Pietch). Richmond, Surrey, UK: Keepsake Press, 1979.
  • The Reign of Sparrows. London: London Magazine Editions, 1980.
  • More About Tompkins, and other light verse. Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1981.
  • House and Shop. Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1982.
  • The Individual and his Times: A selection of the poetry of Roy Fuller (edited by V.J. Lee). London: Athlone Press, 1982.
  • As from the Thirties. Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1983.
  • Mianserin Sonnets. Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1984.
  • New and Collected Poems, 1934-84. London: Secker & Warburg / London Magazine Editions, 1985.
  • Subsequent to Summer. London: Salamander Press, 1985.
  • Outside the Canon. Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1986.
  • Lessons of the Summer. Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1987.
  • Consolations: Poems. London: Secker & Warburg, 1987.
  • Available for Dreams. London: Collins Harvill, 1989.
  • Last Poems. London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993.
  • Selected Poems (edited by John Fuller). Manchester, UK, & Chicago: Carcanet, 2012.

Novels[]

  • With My Little Eye. London: John Lehmann, 1948.
  • The Second Curtain. London: D. Verschoyle, 1953.
  • Image of a Society. London: Deutsch, 1956.
  • Fantasy and Fugue. London: D. Verschoyle, 1954; New York: Macmillan, 1956; Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1970
    • also published as Murder in Mind. Chicago: Academy Chicago, 1986.
  • The Ruined Boys. London: Deutsch, 1959.
    • published in U.S. as That Distant Afternoon. New York: Macmillan, 1959.
  • The Father's Comedy. London: Deutsch, 1961.
  • The Perfect Fool. London: Deutsch, 1963.
  • My Child, My Sister. London: Deutsch, 1965.
  • The Carnal island. London: Deutsch, 1970.
  • Crime Omnibus. Manchester, UK: Carcanet, 1988.
  • Stares. London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1990.

Non-fiction[]

  • Owls and Artificers: Oxford lectures on poetry. London: Deutsch, 1971; La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1974.
  • Professors and Gods: Last Oxford lectures on poetry. London: Deutsch, 1973; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1975.
  • Souvenirs. London: London Magazine Editions, 1980.
  • Vamp Till Ready: Further memoirs. London: London Magazine Editions, 1982.
  • Home and Dry: Memoirs III. London: London Magazine Editions, 1984.
  • Twelfth Night: A personal view. Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1985.
  • The Strange and the Good: Collected memoirs. London: Collins-Harvill, 1989.
  • Spanner and Pen: Post-war memoirs. London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991.

Juveniline[]

  • Savage Gold: A story of adventure. London: Lehmann, 1946.
  • Seen Grandpa Lately?. London: Deutsch, 1972.
  • Upright Downfall (poems, with Barbara Giles & Adrian Rumble). Oxford, UK, & New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
  • The World Through the Window: Collected poems for children (illustraated by Nick Duffy). London: G.B. Blackie, 1989.

Edited[]

  • Lord Byron, Byron for Today. London: Porcupine Press, 1948.
  • Fellow Mortals: An anthology of animal verse (illustrated by David Koster). Plymouth, UK: Macdonald & Evans, 1981.
"January_1940"_by_Roy_Fuller_(read_by_Tom_O'Bedlam)

"January 1940" by Roy Fuller (read by Tom O'Bedlam)


Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[3]

See also[]


Preceded by
Edmund Blunden 		Oxford Professor of Poetry
1968-1973 		Succeeded by
John Wain

References[]

Notes[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roy Fuller, Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. Web, Mar. 5, 2016.
  2. ↑ Roy Fuller 1912-1991, Poetry Foundation, Web, Sep. 16, 2012.
  3. ↑ Search results = au:Roy Fuller, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Mar. 5, 2016.

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