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The opening of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire includes a quote from a Robert Frost poem that perfectly embodies the film's larger conflict. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire sees the return of Phoebe ...
Jay Parini is a poet, novelist and Robert Frost biographer. He wrote about the poem "Nothing New" for The New Yorker, and he joins us now. Welcome, Jay. JAY PARINI: Andrew, thank you for having me on.
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.
BERNARD DE VOTO put the contradiction simply: "You're a good poet, Robert, but you're a bad man." Another friend of Robert Frost, Theodore Morrison, wrote an appraisal that was at once more ...
In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably — which, for Frost, ... The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry. By Adam Plunkett. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 500 pp. $37 .
Plunkett offers a compelling reminder that—to quote one of Frost’s favorite lines, by the poet George Meredith—“No villain ...
Lost and Found: A Newly Discovered Poem by Robert Frost “Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.
Jay Parini is a poet, novelist and Robert Frost biographer. He wrote about the poem "Nothing New" for The New Yorker, and he joins us now. Welcome, Jay. JAY PARINI: Andrew, thank you for having me on.