His book William Blake, His Philosophy and Symbols from 1924 was later followed by A Blake Dictionary (1965), the work for which he is perhaps best known.
His later academic career was at Brown University, where he had positions from 1927. His other writings include a biography of Amy Lowell , and the long poem The Moulton Tragedy, a heroic poem with lyrics (1971). He also published poetry under the pseudonym Samuel Nomad.
S(amuel) FosterDamon (1893-1971), professor of English, was born in Newton, Massachusetts, on February 12, 1893.
In 1968 the University published William Blake: Essays for S. FosterDamon, and celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday with a two-day festival in 1968, during which Damon read from his poems, a music professor played Damon’s compositions, and students performed parts of Damon’s play, “Witch of Dogtown,” and a seminar on Blake was held.
Damon died on December 25, 1971 in Smithfield, Rhode Island.
Damon "was born in Newton, Massachusetts, on February 12, 1893.
Damon is most vividly remembered standing in the John Hay, sorting stacks of sheet music, separating the 19th century Afro-Americana from the twentieth-century Broadway show music, building collections of Confederate imprints or early American secular music, gathering the lovely colored lithographs of the 1840's and 1850's.
Still to be found are numerous pieces of sheet music with notes attached, in Damon's unmistakable hand, calling attention to the fact that this piece is the first issued by a well-known publisher, or that another is the scarce first edition of a well-known title, or that this composer often published under that pseudonym.
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