Roy Broadbent Fuller was an English writer, known mostly as a poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

. He was born in Failsworth, Lancashire

Failsworth

At Failsworth lies north-northwest of London. It shares common boundaries with Manchester and Oldham, on its west and northeast respectively. Failsworth is traversed by the A62 road, from Manchester to Oldham, the heavy rail line of the Oldham Loop and the Rochdale Canal, which crosses the...

, and brought up in Blackpool

Blackpool

Blackpool is a borough, seaside town, and unitary authority area of Lancashire, in North West England. It is situated along England's west coast by the Irish Sea, between the Ribble and Wyre estuaries, northwest of Preston, north of Liverpool, and northwest of Manchester...

. He worked as a lawyer (solicitor

Solicitor

Solicitors are lawyers who traditionally deal with any legal matter including conducting proceedings in courts. In the United Kingdom, a few Australian states and the Republic of Ireland, the legal profession is split between solicitors and barristers , and a lawyer will usually only hold one title...

) for a building society

Building society

A building society is a financial institution owned by its members as a mutual organization. Building societies offer banking and related financial services, especially mortgage lending. These institutions are found in the United Kingdom and several other countries.The term "building society"...

, serving in the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

 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

The Movement

- Music :* The Movement , an American rock/reggae band* The Movement , the house music act* The Movement , a Danish/German mod revival punk band* The Movement , 2003...

. He was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University 1968-1973. The poet John Fuller

John Fuller (poet)

John Fuller is an English poet and author, and Fellow Emeritus at Magdalen College, Oxford.Fuller was born in Ashford, Kent, England, the son of poet and Oxford Professor Roy Fuller, and educated at St Paul's School and New College, Oxford. He began teaching in 1962 at the State University of New...

 is his son. In 1966 Anthony Powell

Anthony Powell

Anthony Dymoke Powell CH, CBE was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975....

 dedicated to Fuller his novel The Soldier's Art

The Soldier's Art

The Soldier's Art is the eighth novel in Anthony Powell's twelve-volume masterpiece A Dance to the Music of Time, and the second in the war trilogy. It was published in 1966, and touches on themes of separation and unanticipated loss....

, the eighth volume of his masterwork, A Dance to the Music of Time

A Dance to the Music of Time

A Dance to the Music of Time is a twelve-volume cycle of novels by Anthony Powell, inspired by the painting of the same name by Nicolas Poussin. One of the longest works of fiction in literature, it was published between 1951 and 1975 to critical acclaim...

.

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)