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 ...

In the new book “Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry” Adam Plunkett ... sees as “clichés” to construct an original portrait of the poet. Adam Plunkett is a literary critic ...

Poetry great Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco, California, on this day in history, March 26, 1874. Frost spent the ...

Robert Frost, who turned 20 in 1894 ... the suicide of his son—but somehow more depressing is Plunkett’s portrait of the strange and stifling coterie around him in the latter years, the ...