Biography:

Born March 1, 1927, Birmingham.  Parents;  J. Terry and Maude Belle (Brown) Johnson.  Married Nan Heffelfinger, October 5, 1957.  Children; two.  Education Birmingham-Southern College, A. B., 1950; Harvard University, A.B., 1950; Vanderbilt University, Ph.D., 1954; University College, Oxford, postdoctoral study, 1954-55.  Military:  wartime service, U.S.Navy, 1945-46.  Instructor in English, Vanderbilt, 1952-54; University of Rochester, 1955-  .  Member Modern Language Association, American Association of University Professors, Phi Beta Kappa.  An Associate of the Susan B. Anthony Center.  Awards; American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1949-50; 1966-67; Fulbright Fellowship, 1954-55; Folger Library Fellowship, 1963; Guggenheim Fellowship. 1970-71.

Source;

Contemporary Authors Online.

Author; 

 Logic and Rhetoric, Macmillan, 1962.

The Formation of English Neo-Classical Thought, Princeton University Press, 1968.

Editor;

The Plays of John Dennis, Garland, 1980.

Utopian Literature.  Modern Library, 1968.

Compiler;

Concepts of Literature.  Prentice-Hall, 1970.

Prose in Practice: A Rhetorical Reader. Harcourt, 1971.