 roy broadbent fuller (11 february 1912 â 27 september 1991) was an english writer, known mostly as a poet. he was born in failsworth, lancashire, and brought up in blackpool, lancashire. 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) *brutusâs orchard (1957) *fantasy and fugue (1956) [this was republished as murder in mind.] *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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