Frost himself clearly thought so. In fact, his poetry--great as much of it is--would very likely not be remembered so widely and well had he not been one of the foremost self-promoters in American ...

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

A critic wrestles with Robert Frost’s life and verse© Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Farrar, Straus & Giroux Adam Plunkett, author of “Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry.”© Berit ...

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.

When I heard that a previously unpublished poem by Robert Frost had been discovered, I was skeptical. I know Frost’s poetry well, having written “Robert Frost: A Life” and, quite recently, a ...

‘Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry’ by Adam Plunkett More than six decades after Robert Frost’s death, “it’s hard to think of a better-known poet who is more difficult ...

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

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 ...

The title is “Birches” but the subject is birch “swinging”. The poem has been written by poet Robert Frost. It was included in the third Mountain Interval poetry collection of Frost ...

Robert Frost was like that, you can read a Frost poem once and get something wonderful from it. And then if you read it a few more times you may see more and more things going on under the surface.