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 specializing in American literature.
His notable contributions include the rediscovery of the Puritan poet Edward Taylor (c. 1664–1729), whose complete poems Poetical Works, he edited and published in 1939; his co-editorship 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 also published Emily Dickinson: An Interpretative Biography. Prior to Johnson's work, complete editions of Dickinson's writing were unavailable. He also authored The Oxford Companion to American History (1966).