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

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 ...

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.

Frost's most famous poem is misread as a celebration of American nonconformists, writes SU professor. To true nonconformists, it would have evoked the era's racial violence.

The Holden Frost House sits just north of Cannon Mountain, with views of its trails and majestic Franconia Notch and ...