Parsons, Thomas William, 1819-1892
Thomas William Parsons (August 18, 1819, Boston – September 3, 1892, Scituate, Massachusetts) was an American dentist and poet.<p>
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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 <i>Paradiso</i>, 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 <i>The Galaxy</i> and <i>The Atlantic Monthly</i>. In 1857 he married Anna (or Hannah) M. Allen (1821-1881).
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