Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly called The Independent. “On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in ...

A fond memory of the poet.

Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.

Morally speaking, not always, and in his excellent new biography, “Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry ... authorial hide-and-seek in Frost’s early lyrics, he hears the ...

At the end of his life, Robert Frost was living in a cabin on the 150 ... surefooted simplicity of a poem such as “Mowing.” The early poems are “written from the inaccessible past ...

“On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in his new Love and Need: The Life of Robert ... who in early-’50s America went off like a rocket while Frost was steadily expanding ...

I was surprised that, in her review of a new book on Robert ... 1954-55, Frost sat down with a handful of students at Yale. My impression of him has been a little diamond in my life ever since.