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, 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.

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)
*"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)