When the speaker of Frost’s poem wonders what use a wall might be that encloses no livestock, I wonder that, too. When he asks his neighbor just how it is that good fences make good neighbors ...

New Hampshire is home to several famous and award-winning authors. The New Hampshire Literary Hall of Fame includes Robert Frost, John Irving, Ernest Thompson, Donald Hall, Grace Metalious ...

It’s exactly what Robert Frost asked us to avoid when he wrote what has become our most famous poem, “The Road Not Taken.” Almost everyone knows the poem. It’s found everywhere in our ...

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).

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.

In his poem, Evening in a Sugar Orchard, Robert Frost recalls a night at Franconia spent boiling sap with the poet Raymond Holden. Occasionally, the two of them would take turns going outside of ...

Robert Frost, who turned 20 in 1894, uncertain of his gift, bouncing among stray gigs (actor’s manager, repairer of lights at a wool mill) in Lawrence, Massachusetts, had written a poem called ...

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

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.

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 ...