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(1912–1991), English poet. Born Roy Broadbent in Failsworth, Lancashire, he was educated at Blackpool High School, Lancashire. He became a solicitor in 1934, and between 1941and1946 he served as an officer in the Royal Navy. Despite a busy professional life, he established himself as a poet of quality, producing more than thirty collections of his verse from 1940 onward. He was Oxford Professor of Poetry (1968–1973), and was awarded the Queen's Prize for Poetry in 1970 and received a Cholmondeley Award for Poetry in 1980. Fuller's contribution to children's literature was a relatively small part of his work. He published three novels for children between 1949and1966. More notable are his five collections of verse published between 1972and1989, particularly Seen Grandpa Lately (1972) and Poor Roy (1977). Largely devoted to comedy and nonsense verse, his poetry also explores a range of experiences, including loss and death.
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Roy Broadbent Fuller (11 February 1912 – 27 September 1991) was an English writer, known mostly as a poet. He was born in Failsworth, 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. 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.
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)
- The Second Curtain (1953)
- Counterparts (1954)
- Image of a Society (1956)
- Brutus’s Orchard (1957)
- Fantasy and Fugue (1957)
- Byron for Today (1958)
- 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)
- 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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