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

Frost’s approachable verse and appealing rural subjects brought him legions of admirers. His personal life was shot through ...

In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably — which, for Frost, meant as mischievously — as possible: “Am I any good? That’s what I’d like to know and all I need to know.” The ...

The vigor of their badness preserves them. Up they float into bad-poem limbo, where their bad lines, loose and weedlike, ...

In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably ... Beneath the seeming casualness of “Birches,” Plunkett intuits the stately bones of Milton’s “Lycidas.” ...

But ironically, Robert Frost was 40 years old ... the Frost who was a praiser of country things—the joy in swinging birches or treading leaves, the ornery bite of a grindstone against an ...

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The line one could do worse than be a swinger of birches comes from the poem birches ... we stumped you on Robert Frost. It begins when April, with its sweet showers, pierces the drought of ...