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

Take Robert Frost. The four-time-Pulitzer-winning poet is known for his ... LIMBONG: All right. So what's the backstory here? Where was this poem, "Nothing New," discovered? PARINI: Well, it ...

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 claim: “We love the things we love for what they are.” Frost’s greatest poems capture the details of his world as it was ...

Robert Frost, who turned 20 in 1894, uncertain of his gift, bouncing among stray gigs (actor’s manager, repairer of lights at a wool mill) in Lawrence, Massachusetts, had written a poem called ...