Roy Fuller Critical Essay | Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement

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 poems collected in Epitaphs and Occasions], occasional and informal in the best sense, are concerned with the relation of the individual's integrity to the collective good; others with the positive meanings of art in a society doomed by the pressure of outside events…. [One] aspect of Mr. Fuller's recent development [is his] realization of the dichotomy between the role of art, making coherent and discernible the unformulated, and the enormous "death by nature, chanceless, credible." The word "art" appears almost obsessively in these poems, and Mr. Fuller uses it as a sort of Roy (Broadbent) Fuller 1912– Photograph by Alan Hillyer; courtesy of Roy Fullerfinal reference, Olympian but powerless, to suggest the kind of myths to which the...
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