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Thomas William Parsons (August 18, 1819, Boston – September 3, 1892, Scituate, Massachusetts〔Underwood, F. H., ''Builders of American literature'', 1893〕) was an American dentist and poet. 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 Paradiso,〔Hart, J. D., ''Oxford cmpanion to American literature'', 1941〕 began to appear in 1843.〔Drake, F. S., ''Dictionary of American biography'', 1870〕 After practicing dentistry in Boston, he lived for several years in England before returning to Boston in 1872.〔''Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography'', 6 vols, 1888〕 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 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas William Parsons」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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