About Thomas William Parsons
Lived 1819 – 1892 (aged 73). Thomas William Parsons was an American poet, dentist, translator and writer.
Thomas William Parsons (August 18, 1819, Boston – September 3, 1892, Scituate, Massachusetts ) was an American dentist and poet.
Parsons was educated at the Boston Latin School, and visited Italy to study Italian literature in 1836-7. began to appear in 1843. After practicing dentistry in Boston, he lived for several years in England before returning to Boston in 1872. He was a contributor to The Galaxy and The Atlantic Monthly. In 1857 he married Anna (or Hannah) M. Allen (1821-1881).
Works The First Ten Cantos of the Inferno of Dante, 1843 Poems, 1854 (ed. C. E. Norton), The Divine Comedy of Dante Aligheri, 1893
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