Background
Fuller was born at Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom, the son of poet and Oxford Professor Roy Fuller, and educated at Street Paul"s School and New College, Oxford.
Fuller was born at Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom, the son of poet and Oxford Professor Roy Fuller, and educated at Street Paul"s School and New College, Oxford.
New College.
He began teaching in 1962 at the State University of New York, then continued at the University of Manchester. From 1966 to 2002 he was a Fellow and tutor of Magdalen College, Oxford. He is now Fellow Emeritus.
Fuller has published 15 collections of poetry, including,, and the recent.
Chatto and Windus published a in 1996. He has also written collections of short stories and several books for children.
His poem Ship of Sounds, illustrated with a wood engraving by the artist Garrick Palmer, was published in 1981 in an edition of 130 by The Gruffyground Press. In 1968, John Fuller established the Sycamore Press, which he ran from his garage.
The Sycamore Press published some of the most influential and critically acclaimed poets of the latter half of the twentieth century, such as West. H. Auden, Philip Larkin and Peter Porter.
The Sycamore Press ceased operations in 1992, and is an excellent example of a British small press, publishing for motives other than profit. John Fuller and the Sycamore Press (Bodleian Library, 2010) includes an interview with John Fuller and personal reflections by Sycamore Press authors about Fuller, the press and the works it produced. The book also includes a bibliography of the pamphlets and broadsides Fuller produced.
Fuller is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
A Reader"s Guide to West.H. Auden (1970) The Sonnet Who is Ozymandias? and other puzzles in poetry (2011) Herod Do Your Worst (1968) Squeaking Crust (1970) The Spider Monkey Uncle King The Last Bid The Extraordinary Wool Mill and other stories (1980) Come Aboard and Sail Away You"re Having Maine On! (2014) The Chatto Book of Love The Dramatic Works of John Gay The Oxford Book of Sonnets West.H. Auden.
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