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

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 ...

Robert Frost’s poem “Hyla Brook” concludes with a resounding ... The couple started a family in 1896, and Frost took a turn as an unsuccessful farmer and, later,a caring, rumple-haired ...

Sometimes things live up to their name. Take Robert Frost. The four-time-Pulitzer-winning poet is known for his wintry poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING ...

Frost’s approachable verse and appealing rural subjects brought him legions of admirers. His personal life was shot through with pain.

“On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in his new Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry ... with his family, in 1912, and decamped to England for three ...