Poetic Obituaries: Mr. Taylor served as a trustee

of the Abbot Public Library, in Marblehead, and was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society and Saint Botolph Club. In 1967, he was director of publications at the Institute of Contemporary Art.

Robert Sundling Taylor was born in Newton. His parents were Elsie (Sundling) and Frank M. Taylor, a traveling salesman. Mr. Taylor began going with them to the Museum of Fine Arts and Gardner Museum when he was 10. At 14 he sold his first piece of writing, a poem, to The Portland (Maine) Evening Express.

from The Boston Globe: Robert Taylor, 84; critic was man of letters, connections

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