Thomas Herbert Johnson

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 (–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). Provided by Wikipedia