Selected Poems - Fuller, Roy

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Résumé :
From his first wartime collection evoking a generation's experience of a country made strange by blackouts and air raids to the consolatory wisdom of poems written later in his life, Great Britain's Roy Fuller was a poet of the familiar and ordinary made extraordinary. Mundane details, observed with the author's tolerant humor and acute eye, reveal depths and dissonances from which a civilized life may be created. On the centenary of Fuller's birth, this generous selection--introduced by the poet's son and including an afterword by Neil Powell, Fuller's biographer--brings to a new generation of readers the work of one of the essential poets of the 20th century.

Biographie:
Roy Fuller was the legal director of the Woolwich Building Society and the author of 18 poetry collections, nine novels, and four volumes of memoirs. He was also a professor of poetry at Oxford University and the recipient of the Commander of the Order of the British Empire award and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. John Fuller is a poet, a novelist, and a critic. He is an emeritus fellow at Magdalen College as well as a former lecturer at the State University of New York and at the University of Manchester in England. He is the author of six poetry collections and four novels, including Flying to Nowhere, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award....

'For all his self-deprecation, he had an unquenchable impulse to marvel at things - to rejoice in the merely human, and to let the sense of approaching death feel part of life.' -- Andrew Motion