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Roy Fuller : writer and society

Author: Neil Powell
Publisher: Manchester [England] : Carcanet, 1995.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English
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When Roy Fuller died in 1991, there was general agreement: he was among the finest poets of his time, a novelist of importance, a man whose multi-stranded career - literary, cultural, professional - was exemplary. And he had been undervalued: he never quite, in his self deprecating phrase, 'caught on'.

Early in 1990 Neil Powell approached him with a proposal to write a 'literary biography' - revaluing the work in  Read more...

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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:

When Roy Fuller died in 1991, there was general agreement: he was among the finest poets of his time, a novelist of importance, a man whose multi-stranded career - literary, cultural, professional - was exemplary. And he had been undervalued: he never quite, in his self deprecating phrase, 'caught on'.

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 Drawing on unpublished letters and journals and on all the published sources, Roy Fuller: Writer and Society provides the first integrated account of an astonishing life's work.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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