Parsons, Thomas William

Ms., 1819-1892. A poet of Boston who for some years practised his profe ion of dentistry there. The quality of his writing is uneven, but in such poems as the Lines on a Bust of Dante, and When Francesca Sings, he is at his best. His work includes a much-admired though incomplete translation in English verse of Dante’s Divina Com media, of which an edition was i ued in 1893, with introduction by C. E. Norton, supra, and memorial sketch by Mi Guiney, supra; Ghetto di Roma; The Magnolia; The Old Home at Sudbury; The Shadow of the Obelisk, and Other Poems; Poems (1893). See Atlantic Monthly; Stedman’s Poets of America; Hovey’s Seaward, an Elegy. Hou.