Roy Fuller Summary

Roy Fuller has been considered "a norm against whom other poets of the past thirty years may be judged," and as "the one philosophical poet of undoubted capability writing in England today." His novel... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement [In] contrast to most of his contemporaries, Mr. Fuller still believes in the unambiguous direct statement about immediate issues. [Many of the new poe... Read more

Critical Essay by George Woodcock [Since the publication of his first volume of verse, Poems, in 1939,] Fuller has published, including his Collected Poems [1962] (which contains items ungathered els... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement The themes which preoccupy Roy Fuller in his poetry are nakedly, indeed oppressively, active in [The Carnal Island]. Most of Fuller's verse has,... Read more

Critical Essay by George Woodcock If being a philosophic poet means finding, in all the changing conditions of one's life, the poetic correlative—the tone and language—appropriat... Read more

Critical Essay by Blake Morrison Though [Souvenirs] is a prose memoir and [The Reign of Sparrows] a book of poems, they form two halves of the same sexagenarian drama. There are the same themes: trib... Read more

Critical Essay by Alan Brownjohn The Reign of Sparrows is not quite as good as either [Brutus's Orchard or New Poems], but there is plenty in it to remind [Roy Fuller's] admirers just h... Read more

Critical Essay by Gavin Ewart ['Vamp Till Ready'] takes us, roughly, from [Fuller's] time as a solicitor's articled clerk in London in the early Thirties (Fuller was 20 in... Read more

Critical Essay by Alan Brownjohn Probably no living English poet has taken up more constantly than Roy Fuller the themes of the man in the street and the poet in his society. He feels himself to be a... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement Mr. Fuller's post-war poetry has generally been that of a quiet, contemplative family man who uses the trivial happenings of domestic existence ... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement [In The Ruined Boys, published in the United States as That Distant Afternoon,] Mr. Roy Fuller has written a series of quiet vignettes of school life. ... Read more

Critical Essay by Robert Conquest The quality of Roy Fuller's Collected Poems must make any honest reviewer ask himself once more what truly relevant comment he can offer. To say what sort of ... Read more