Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career ... Plunkett writes in his new Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry, “the poetry editor called the rest of ...

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

It was originally written in 1918 but recently discovered and now published in The New Yorker for the first time. Jay Parini is a poet, novelist and Robert Frost biographer. He wrote about the ...