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 ...

Robert Frost’s poem “Hyla Brook” concludes ... that yields subtle and complex interpretations of talk-songs like “Birches” (1915) and “Nothing Gold Can Stay” (1923).

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.” ...