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

Take Robert Frost. The four-time-Pulitzer-winning poet is known for his ... LIMBONG: All right. So what's the backstory here? Where was this poem, "Nothing New," discovered? PARINI: Well, it ...

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 ...

Robert Frost’s poem “Hyla Brook” concludes with a resounding claim: “We love the things we love for what they are.” Frost’s greatest poems capture the details of his world as it was ...