Last Poems

by Roy Fuller, John Fuller (Preface)

In the last years of his life, Roy Fuller published four collections of poems, which were widely praised for their honesty, intellectual curiosity and humour, and led readers to compare him to Hardy, Yeats or Stevens. They formed an impressive and coherent final stage to his poetic work, following his war poetry and the deeper themes of the late 1950s. This book includes a selection of his latter poems, including Further Sonnets from the Portuguese.

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

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.