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Robert Martin Adams (1915 – December 16, 1996) was an American literary scholar. Biography. 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.
—translated and edited by Robert Martin Adams (Norton Critical Edition, 1977). Don’t confuse this Adams (b. 1915) with the now better-known Robert Merrihew Adams (b. 1937). [borrowed from on pages35and45] —translated by Russell Price and edited by Quentin Skinner (Cambridge U. P., 1988) [borrowed from on page40]
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Professor of English. Robert Martin Adams graduated from Columbia University, where he also received an M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. He taught at Columbia, at the University of Wisconsin, and at Rutgers University before coming to Cornell University in 1950.
The Prince a Revised Translation, Backgrounds, Interpretations, Marginalia. N. Machiavelli, R. Adams. Published 1992. History. Accurate, highly readable, and thoroughly revised for the Second Edition, this translation renders Machiavelli's 1513 political tract into clear and concise English.
the reviews are those by Adams in Hudson and Hyman in Kenyon. Robert Martin Adams does not so much review the book as use it for an excuse to practice being at once very smooth and very lethal. Mr. Adams hints that those who are knowing enough to understand him will know perfectly well why the book has to be rejected even
ROBERT MARTIN ADAMS word from Jose Ortega y Gasset, increasingly "dehumanized." The marks of this quality are everywhere, and one needn't labor the point. Fictional heroes, for example, could no longer be interesting because they embodied or exemplified "human nature": they were verbal patterns at second, third, or 26th hand, and they advertised
ROBERT MARTIN ADAMS Rags and garbage, a particular stage in never-ending cycles, are nothing but materials momentarily exhausted of their value by human wear or consumption. The polite name for garbage, "ref-use," carries the crucial concept of human rejection. Second-hand clothing bears the implication that it wasn't good enough for some-
