Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.
ROBERT Frost has been discovering America all ... and so satisfying. His many poems have been different from one another and yet alike. They are the work of a man who has never stopped exploring ...
Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with him. At first, I was reading a lot of the poems and thinking, This is dumb.
“On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in his new Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry, “the poetry editor called the rest of the staff over to listen because ...
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 ...
The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash’ by Alexander Clapp “There is a reason why Mafia bosses tend to work in ‘waste management,’” ...
Scholars say the materials – officially called the Victor E. Reichert Robert Frost Collection -- could provide an important, missing link between Frost’s poetry and his view of religion, which has ...