Roy Fuller

Roy Fuller

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.

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    Strangely, it is the pig himself becomes
    The god inside the car:
    Roy Fuller (b. 1912)

    What does this mean? The individual,
    Nature, mutation, strife?
    I fell, though I am simple, still the whole
    Is complex; and that life,
    A huge, doomed throbbing—has a wiry soul
    That must escape the knife.
    Roy Fuller (b. 1912)

    I envy not only their talents
    And fertile lack of balance
    But the appearance of choice
    In their sad and fatal voice.
    Roy Fuller (b. 1912)