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.

Somebody recently opened the book, and there it was written out in perfect Robert Frostian ... I thought, oh, wow, this is actually a good Robert Frost poem. LIMBONG: All right.

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.

The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash’ by Alexander Clapp “There is a reason why Mafia bosses tend to work in ‘waste management,’” ...

At the end of his life, Robert Frost ... You can figure it out for yourself how my status with a girl like her might be the perfect thing for me at my age in my position.” Frost wished he ...

In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost ... s Will,” came out. He was charming except when he decidedly wasn’t. Plunkett relates how, in the summer of 1945, seven years after Frost’s wife, Elinor ...

Robert Frost, who turned 20 in 1894 ... like something that might come out of the tube when you pull the lever marked POETRY. Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career ...