George Benson Johnston
October 07, 1913 – August 2004
Countries:
Canada
Place of Birth:
Hamilton, Ontario
Place of Death:
Athelstan, Quebec
George Benson Johnston (October 7, 1913 – August 2004) was a Canadian poet (who published as George Johnston), translator, and academic "best known for lyric poetry that delineates with good-humoured wisdom the pleasures and pains of suburban family life." He also had an international reputation as a scholar and translator of the Icelandic Sagas.