Thomas William Parsons

Thomas William Parsons

Thomas William Parsons (August 18, 1819, Boston – September 3, 1892, Scituate, Massachusetts [Underwood, F. H., "Builders of American literature", 1893] ) was an American dentist and poet.

Parsons was educated at the Boston Latin School, and visited Italy to study Italian literature in 1836-7. His translation of Dante's "Divine Comedy", which eventually comprised all the Inferno, two-thirds of the Purgatorio and fragments of the Paradiso, [Hart, J. D., "Oxford cmpanion to American literature", 1941] began to appear in 1843.Drake, F. S., "Dictionary of American biography", 1870] After practicing dentistry in Boston, he lived for several years in England before returning to Boston in 1872. "Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography", 6 vols, 1888] He was a contributor to "The Galaxy" and "The Atlantic Monthly".

Works

*"The First Ten Cantos of the Inferno of Dante", 1843
*"Poems", 1854
*(ed. C. E. Norton), "The Divine Comedy of Dante Aligheri", 1893

References

External links

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