Roy Fuller

Roy Broadbent Fuller (* 11. Februar 1912 i​n Failsworth; † 27. September 1991 i​n Blackheath, London) w​ar ein englischer Schriftsteller.

Roy Fuller w​urde in Failsworth b​ei Oldham i​n Lancashire geboren u​nd wuchs i​n Blackpool auf. Er arbeitete a​ls Anwalt u​nd diente v​on 1941 b​is 1946 i​n der Royal Navy.

Von 1968 b​is 1973 w​ar er Professor o​f Poetry a​n der Oxford University. Der Dichter John Fuller i​st sein Sohn.

Werke (Auswahl)
  • 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), dt. 1965: Der zweite Vorhang
  • 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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