Gradually, over the last three decades, Robert Frost has abandoned the subject matter that made him famous — woods softly filling with snow, the birches and stone walls of New Eng land, the ...

‘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 ...

William H. Pritchard, in “Robert Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered,” from 1993, which has long been the gold-standard biography for many Frost enthusiasts, emphasized the poet’s ingenuity ...

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 ...

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.

There may be no poet more integral to the American identity are more widely known among Americans than Robert Frost. Yet, his life and the extent of his influence are unfamiliar or misunderstood ...

The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry. By Adam Plunkett. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 500 pp. $37. Comments. A note to our readers.

The change was under way in his own poetry. In his creaky, earthy Robert Frost style, he was ushering in something just as shock-of-the-new as anything the modernists would produce.

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.

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.