Roy Fuller

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Roy Broadbent Fuller (born February 11, 1912 in Failsworth , † September 27, 1991 in Blackheath , London ) was an English writer.

Roy Fuller was born in Failsworth near Oldham in Lancashire and grew up in Blackpool . He worked as a lawyer and served in the Royal Navy from 1941 to 1946 .

From 1968 to 1973 he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University . The poet John Fuller is his son.

Works (selection)

  • Poems (1939)
  • A Lost Season (1944)
  • Savage gold (1946)
  • Epitaphs and Occasions (1949)
  • Counterparts (1954)
  • Brutus's Orchard (1957)
  • The carnal island (1970)
  • Seen grandpa lately? (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)
  • Fellow mortals: An anthology of animal verse (1981)
  • House and shop (1982)
  • Vamp till ready: Further memoirs (1982)
  • As from the thirties (1983)
  • Home and dry: Memoirs III (1984)
  • Mianserin Sonnets (1984)
  • Subsequent to summer (1985)
  • New and collected poems, 1934-1984 (1985)
  • Outside the Canon (1986)
  • The second curtain (1986), German 1965: The second curtain
  • Image of a society (1987)
  • Lessons of the summer (1987)
  • The ruined boys (1987)
  • Consolations (1987)
  • Available for dreams (1989)
  • Stares (1990)
  • Spanner and pen: Post-war memoirs (1991)

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personal data
SURNAME Fuller, Roy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuller, Roy Broadbent (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Failsworth
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1991
Place of death Blackheath , London