Adams, Robert Martin, 1915-1996

Robert Martin Adams obituary, Dec. 18, 1996; Robert M. Adams, a writer, editor and teacher, died on Monday at St. Vincent's Hospital in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 81 and lived in Santa Fe.

Mr. Adams's wide-ranging scholarly interests were reflected in the titles of the many books he wrote. They included ''Ikon: John Milton and the Modern Critics'' (1955), ''Stendhal: Notes on a Novelist'' (1959), ''Surface and Symbol: The Consistency of James Joyce's 'Ulysses' '' (1962), ''Proteus, His Lies, His Truth: Discussions of Literary Translation'' (1973) and ''The Roman Stamp: Frame and Facade in Some Forms of Neo-Classicism'' (1974) ...

Adams was born Robert Martin Krapp in New York City in 1915. He was the son of George Philip Krapp, a Columbia University English professor, and grandson of Swedish painter Carl Frederick von Saltza. His uncle was muralist Philip von Saltza.

Adams received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D., all from Columbia University, and changed his name after serving in the army during World War II. Adams taught at Columbia, Rutgers, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, before joining the Cornell University faculty in 1950.[3] His students at Cornell included future Princeton University professor and Kafka scholar Stanley Corngold. He joined the University of California, Los Angeles faculty in 1968 and retired in 1979 ...