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Thomas William Parsons

1819–1892

Thomas William Parsons (1819–1892) was an American poet and translator, born in Boston, who practised as a dentist. He spent decades translating Dante’s Inferno into English verse, a work that earned him a lasting if modest reputation.

His original poems, such as “On a Bust of Dante”, are classical in manner and were admired by his Boston contemporaries.

Poems (21)

  1. Her Epitaph
  2. On a Bust of Dante
  3. To a Young Girl Dying
  4. Paradisi Gloria
  5. Campanile De Pisa
  6. The Shadow of the Obelisk
  7. On a Lady Singing
  8. Hudson River
  9. On the Death of Daniel Webster
  10. On a Magdalen by Guido
  11. To James Russell Lowell, in Return for a Talbotype Picture of Venice
  12. Dirge
  13. Mary Booth
  14. Into the Noiseless Country
  15. Andrew
  16. Obituary
  17. To a Lady
  18. Like as the Lark
  19. O Ye Sweet Heavens!
  20. The Groomsman to His Mistress
  21. Saint Peray

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