Robert Martin Adams

Background

Robert was born on the 27th of November 1915, in New York, United States.

Education

Adams began his teaching career in 1938 at Columbia College in New York.

Career

For the next forty-one years, he taught English at several universities, including Rutgers, Cornell, and University of California, Los Angeles. He followed this with several other publications, and trans-lated and edited many more. His essays were published in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times Book Review, among others. His works include Surface and Symbol: The Consistency of James Joyce's “Ulysses, ” The Land and Literature of En-gland: A Historical Account, The Lost Museum: Glimpses of Vanished Originals, Ikon: John Milton and the Modem Critics, and Shakespeare: The Four Romances. He also edited the Hudson Review.

Adams gained prominence as a literary critic and the founding editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature.

Achievements

• Robert's essays were published in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times Book Review, among others. Adams gained prominence as a literary critic and the founding editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature.

Works

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  • Surface and Symbol: The Consistency of James Joyce's Ulysses 1962