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The New Hampshire Literary Hall of Fame includes Robert ... Frost and his family from 1900 to 1911. While here, Frost farmed the land, taught at nearby Pinkerton Academy, and wrote several poems.
He speaks of the chalice after the meal, the cup of thanksgiving ... the Father gave us Jesus and his sacrificial death. Robert Frost’s poem ends with an impasse and a threat of violence ...
He focuses instead on the poetry, which he rightly characterizes as being at heart about the ambiguity of human motives. In Plunkett, “Frost has found an ideal biographer,” one who’s ...
Harvey Teres is the William P. Tolley Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities and Dean’s Professor for the Public Humanities in English at Syracuse University. It is the end of what ...
The critic Adam Plunkett expertly teases out the many meanings of Frost’s poems in “Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Blending biography and ...
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 ...
There are no revelations in Love and Need, but Plunkett excels at bringing the poems to life with contextual details (such as the ones above) and literary resonances. Robert Frost in 1962.
Produced in 1997, This special features the works of Robert Frost. Filmed at the Frost home in Franconia, NH it features the following poems: "Evening in a Sugar Orchard," "Nothing Gold Can Stay ...
In the new book “Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry” Adam Plunkett challenges previous biographers’ interpretations of Frost’s life and work breaking away from what he sees ...
“On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in his new Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry, “the poetry editor called the rest of the staff over to listen because ...
Sometimes things live up to their name. Take Robert Frost. The four-time-Pulitzer-winning poet is known for his wintry poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING ...