Roy Fuller

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

Works (selection)

  • Poems (1939 )
  • Savage gold (1946 )
  • Epitaphs and Occasions (1949 )
  • Counterparts (1954 )
  • Brutus 's Orchard (1957 )
  • The carnal Iceland (1970 )
  • Lakes 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 )
  • 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 ), GV 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 )
  • Tensioner and pen: Post-war memoirs ( 1991)
1912 September 27 Blackheath (London) London Oxford Professor of Poetry Matthew Arnold Francis Turner Palgrave A. C. Bradley Adam Fox Cecil Day-Lewis Edmund Blunden Seamus Heaney James Fenton Paul Muldoon Ruth Padel Geoffrey Hill Integrated Authority File
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