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

Robert Frost’s poem “Hyla Brook” concludes with a resounding ... The couple started a family in 1896, and Frost took a turn as an unsuccessful farmer and, later,a caring, rumple-haired ...

“On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in his new Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry ... with his family, in 1912, and decamped to England for three ...

There are no revelations in Love and Need, but Plunkett excels at bringing the poems to life with contextual details (such as the ones above) and literary resonances. Robert Frost in 1962.

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 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) ...