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 ...

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

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 ...

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

“The World After Gaza,” “Cold Kitchen,” “Victorian Psycho,” and “Code Noir.” ...