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

Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with him. At first, I was reading a lot of the poems and thinking, This is dumb.

Produced in 1997, This special features the works of Robert Frost. Produced in 1997, This special features the works of Robert Frost. Filmed at the Frost home in Franconia, NH it features the ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly called The Independent. “On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in ...

The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash’ by Alexander Clapp “There is a reason why Mafia bosses tend to work in ‘waste management,’” ...

British critic Tim Kendall reminded us of why we love Frost by taking us back to his work in The Art of Robert Frost (2013). Plunkett’s Love and Need, for its part, offers something of a ...

In his first book, “Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry,” the literary critic Adam Plunkett interweaves discussions of the poet’s life and works to show that Frost could also ...