From Wikipedia:
Roy Broadbent Fuller (11 February 1912 – 27 September 1991) was an English writer, known mostly as a poet. He was born in Failsworth, Lancashire, and brought up in Blackpool, Lancashire. He worked as a lawyer (solicitor) for a building society, serving in the Royal Navy 1941-1946.
Poems (1939) was his first book of poetry. He began to write fiction also 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. The poet John Fuller is his son. In 1966 Anthony Powell dedicated to Fuller his novel The Soldier's Art, the eighth volume of his masterwork, A Dance to the Music of Time.

Inside flap:
"This collection starts with some enjoyable poems from the thirties, and continues with the accurate and moving wartime poems that first began to make Roy Fuller's name. Then comes the wit and concreteness of his immediate post-war verse, which undoubtedly influence the so-called Movement poets but from which he quickly moved on to deal with more complex themes in more elaborate language. It culminates in a section of hithero uncollected poems which are of unusual richness and power, and which confirm the impression to be gained throughout the earlier parts of this volume: that Mr. Fuller is a constantly evolving and deepening writer. Mr. Fuller is now fifty, and these poems of twenty five years establish him, we believe, as one of the strongest poets not only of his generation but of those now writing in English. "