Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry; by Adam Plunkett; Farrar, Straus & Giroux 512 pp., $37.00. Frost’s wife, Elinor, died in March 1938.

After William’s death in 1885, Isabelle moved, with 11-year-old Robert and his younger sister Jeanie, to Massachusetts.At Lawrence High School, Frost encountered Cicero, Virgil, and, perhaps ...

In the decades since, critics and biographers have pushed back on this dim view of Frost. William H. Pritchard, in “Robert Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered,” from 1993, which has long been ...