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Parsons, Thomas William

author, poet, was born Aug. 18, 1819, in Boston, Mass. He was a poet of Boston who for some years practiced his profession 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 Commedia, of which an edition was issued in 1893, with introduction by C. E. Norton, and memorial sketch by Miss Guiney; Ghetto di Roma; The Magnolia; The Old Home at Sudbury; The Shadow of the Obelisk, and Other Poems; and Poems. He died in 1892.