S. Foster Damon

1893 –
1971

Samuel Foster Damon, born on February 12, 1893, in Newton, Massachusetts, was a poet, translator, critic, and noted William Blake scholar. He is the author of several titles, including William Blake, His Philosophy and Symbols (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924), A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake (Brown University Press, 1965), and The Moulton Tragedy, A Heroic Poem with Lyrics (Gambit, 1970). He died on December 25, 1971.