Lives & letters
1 total work
Drawing on letters, journals and published writing, this text provides an account of Roy Fuller's life and work. All the books of poetry are discussed and the novels receive attention. A story of Fuller's career also unfolds: provincial schoolboy; solicitor's clerk; law student; wartime Navy radar engineer in England and East Africa; post-war solicitor and legal director of Woolwich Building Society; Oxford Professor of Poetry; BBC Governor; and Chairman of the Arts Council Literature Panel.