Roy (Broadbent) Fuller | Biography

Roy Broadbent Fuller came to prominence as an English poet during World War II with The Middle of a War (1942) and A Lost Season (1944). His first book, Poems (1939), is apprentice work influenced by W.H. Auden and other 1930s poets. Wartime experience as a service man in East Africa enabled him to establish his individuality. In 1961 Robert Conquest included work by Fuller in his collection New Poetry, placing him with the loosely associated group of poets known as The Movement, the predominate British poets of the 1950s and 1960s. Accordingly, Fuller serves as the bridge between prewar and postwar English poetry. He is also a notable novelist, a writer of children's fiction, and a prolific essayist and reviewer, recognized as a significant voice in recent decades for his urbane insistence upon high literary standards. Throughout his writing career, until his retirement in 1968, he worked full-time...
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