Home and dry: Memoirs III

by Roy Fuller

Final volume of autobiography. Bookplate of poet Ann Ridler to front pastedown. In VG clean and bright order throughout. Smart tan cloth boards with bright gilt titling to spine. VG unclipped d/j. 8vo. 165pp

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1984

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

[Barksdale Penick · Rating 3 out of 5]

A friend lent this very English memoir by one of the early lions of BBC. My friend had grown listening to the BBC from India and thought the book would be interesting. Which is probably is in some context, such as researching the lives of British literatti, who are mentioned in abundance. Fuller had wanted to write a great novel and in these memoirs suggests he might have written something like Dance to the Music of Time had not Tony Powell started first. That sort of stuff. But enough of the people mentioned are unfamiliar to me that I just couldn't develop interest in this book.