Samuel Foster Damon (February 12, 1893 – December 25, 1971) was an American academic, a specialist in William Blake, a critic and a poet.
When remembered as a Blake scholar, he is often compared in importance to Northrop Frye and David V.
He graduated from Harvard University in 1914, returning there after World War I as an instructor in the English Department.
He was one of the Harvard Aesthetes, and married Louise Wheelwright, sister of John Brooks Wheelwright, another active Harvard Aesthete.
[1] In the foreword to a revised edition of the Dictionary, Morris Eaves says that when Damon's first book on Blake came out, he was the "Young Turk" of Blake studies, and when the Dictionary appeared, he was the "patriarch" of the field.