Clere Parsons
Clere Parsons (1908 - 1931) was an English poet, born in India.[1] He was educated at Christ Church, University of Oxford,[1] and edited the 1928 edition of Oxford Poetry.
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.[2]
References
- Ousby, Ian, ed. (1993). The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 721. ISBN 0-521-44086-6.
- "Bookride: Writers who were invalids...Clere Parsons & W. N. P. Barbellion". 5 April 2009. Retrieved 19 September 2010.
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