Roy Fuller
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)
Web links
- Literature by and about Roy Fuller in the catalog of the German National Library
- Cushing Library Biography
personal data | |
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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 |