Much of Frost's life occurred on paper--when not in poems, in letters which reveal a man acutely aware of his position in the literary world. But this is not a literary biography; it is a moral one.

When children write poetry, they often jump in with only a vague idea then follow where it leads — adults can do that, too, ...

Poem leads on to poem, the work providing Plunkett’s way through the life: Frost’s childhood, first spent in San Francisco and then in Lawrence, Massachusetts; his marriage to Elinor White ...

Yet “Love and Need” proves an illuminating tour of Frost’s life as well as his afterlife on the page, and these nuanced readings deepen our understanding of his still-powerful poems. Mr.

A four-time Pulitzer Prize winner whose work is principally associated with the landscape and life in New England, Robert Frost (1874-1963) was a traditional, psychologically complex, often dark ...

Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That wants it down. “Mending Wall” is only one of many poems inspired by Frost’s years living on a 30-acre farm in Derry from 1900 to 1911 ...

The life of Frost’s poems is post-social, and the perspective from which it is seen a desperate one. Frost achieves a cleaner verbal surface and a purer diction, but Robinson is more abundant in ...

Jay Parini, a Robert Frost biographer, on “Nothing New,” a poem Frost wrote in 1918, which is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

Poetry for Kids: Robert Frost Edited by Jay Parini, illus. by Michael Paraskevas. MoonDance, $14.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-63322-220-5 ...