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.

ROBERT Frost ... the Complete Poems we find a universe of many recesses, and few readers have found their way into all of these. Some of them are very narrow, it would seem, and out of the ...

Came out in 1923. Brilliant book ... LIMBONG: Jay Parini is a poet, novelist and Robert Frost biographer. Thank you so much for your time. PARINI: Thank you, Andrew. It's been good to be here.