Thomas Herbert Johnson
Thomas H. Johnson | |
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| Born | Thomas Herbert Johnson April 27, 1902 |
| Died | January 3, 1985 (aged 82) |
| Known for | Edward Taylor: Poetical Works, Literary History of the United States, The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson: An Interpretive Biography, The Oxford Companion to American History |
| Spouse | Catherine Rice |
| Children | Laura Johnson Waterman, Thomas Johnson |
| Parent(s) | Herbert Thomas Johnson, Myra Johnson |
| Awards | The Lawrenceville School Masters Award |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Montpelier High School, Dartmouth College, Williams College, Harvard University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | American literature |
| Sub-discipline | Puritan scholar, Emily Dickinson |
Thomas Herbert Johnson (April 27, 1902 – January 3, 1985) was an American scholar, teacher, editor, and bibliographer who specialized in American literature.
His primary contributions include the rediscovery of the Puritan poet Edward Taylor (c. 1664–1729), whose poems he edited and published as The Poetical Works of Edward Taylor (1939). Johnson also served as co-editor of Literary History of the United States (1948, 3 vols.), for which he compiled the third volume, the Bibliography; and his editions of the writings of Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) comprising the Poems (1955, 3 vols.) and the Letters (1958, 3 vols.). In 1955, he published Emily Dickinson: An Interpretive Biography. Before Johnson’s work, no accurate and complete edition of Dickinson’s poems or letters had been published. He also authored The Oxford Companion to American History (1966).