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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Powell, Neil, 1948- Roy Fuller. Manchester [England] : Carcanet, 1995 (OCoLC)603952954 |
| Named Person: | Roy Fuller; Roy Fuller; Roy Fuller; Roy Broadbent Fuller |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Neil Powell |
| ISBN: | 1857541332 9781857541335 |
| OCLC Number: | 33865726 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | x, 330 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Neil Powell. |
Abstract:
Early in 1990 Neil Powell approached him with a proposal to write a 'literary biography' - revaluing the work in the context of the life - and received his blessing. Drawing on unpublished letters and journals and on all the published sources, Roy Fuller: Writer and Society provides the first integrated account of an astonishing life's work. All the books of poetry are discussed, with close readings of vital individual poems; and the novels receive sustained attention. A fascinating and at times hilarious story of his other careers unfolds: as 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; Chairman of the Arts Council Literature Panel. This book offers an authoritative study of a major writer and a portrait of a wise, wry, complex and likable man in his volatile world.
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