Owls and artificers: Oxford lectures on poetry

by Roy Fuller

Slightly yellowed dust jacket with some creases along top edge and hardcover are in good clean condiiton. Pages are clean and tight throughout. T

Hardcover

First published October 1, 1971

About the author

Poems (1939) was Roy Broadbent Fuller's first book of poetry. He also began to write fiction in the 1950s. As a poet he became identified, on stylistic grounds, with The Movement. He was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University 1968-1973.

Reviews

[Natalie Tyler]

Roy Fuller, himself a poet, sheds light on several poets including Yeats, Eliz. Bishop, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath. His style is erudite but amusing. He must have hit the perfect note for his listeners.

[Andy]

Don't know much about poetry; found this on a shelf of more or less abandoned books in some temporary housing. Reading poetry criticism, especially somewhat cantankerous criticism, was pleasant and made poetry seem like something that maybe I could form opinions of my own about, which was exactly what I had hoped from this volume. In particular I was attracted to the lecture on the subject of bad poetry. The details already escape me.