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 ...

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

The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash’ by Alexander Clapp “There is a reason why Mafia bosses tend to work in ‘waste management,’” ...

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

The four-time-Pulitzer-winning poet is known for his wintry poem "Stopping ... this is actually a good Robert Frost poem. LIMBONG: All right. Well, can you read it for us? PARINI: Yeah.

At the end of his ... love Frost by taking us back to his work in The Art of Robert Frost (2013). Plunkett’s Love and Need, for its part, offers something of a recuperation of the poet by ...

“On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in his new Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry, “the poetry editor called the rest of the staff over to listen because ...