Clere Parsons

Clere Parsons (1908 - 1931) was an English poet, born in India.^[1][2]

He was educated at Christ Church,^[2] University of Oxford^[1], and edited the 1928 edition of Oxford Poetry.^[2]

His only collection, Poems, was published after his death by Faber & Faber.^[1] Both the Oxford University Press Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry, and Penguin Books Poetry of the Thirties include selections from his work.

His work was influenced by that of W. H. Auden and Laura Riding,^[1] and has been praised by Geoffrey Grigson and C. H. Sisson.^[1]

Parsons had Type I diabetes, and died of pneumonia.^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Ousby, Ian, ed (1993). The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 721. ISBN 0521440866. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} "Clere Parsons (Clere Trevor James Herbert Parsons) Biography - (1908–31), (Clere Trevor James Herbert Parsons), Oxford Poetry, Poems". http://www.jrank.org/literature/pages/5345/Clere-Parsons-(Clere-Trevor-James-Herbert-Parsons).html. Retrieved 19 September 2010. 
3. ^ "Bookride: Writers who were invalids...Clere Parsons & W. N. P. Barbellion". 5 April 2009. http://www.bookride.com/2009/04/writers-who-were-invalids.html. Retrieved 19 September 2010. 

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Name	Parsons, Clere
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Date of birth	1908
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Date of death	1931
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