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

Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with ...

Robert Frost, who turned 20 in 1894 ... Someone should write a little book, Frost in the Swamp. Plunkett rather rattles through it; Parini takes it slower, noting that a chunk of Frost’s ...

In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably ... love and then resent his subject. As his book’s subtitle suggests, Plunkett’s primary focus is the poetry.

But his darker themes, such as isolation and loss, once inspired Lionel Trilling to call Frost “a terrifying poet.” In his ...

Robert Frost presented himself as a simple man ... retreating to farms in rural New England. He didn’t read book reviews—or so he claimed—and he didn’t write them, preferring instead ...

I was surprised that, in her review of a new book on Robert Frost, Abigail Deutsch refers to the poet as a “terrifying man” (Books, Feb. 22). That doesn’t track with my own experience.

In a Christian Science Monitor review of Andrew R. Marks’ 1994 book, “The Rabbi and the Poet,” which examines the relationship between Frost and Reichert, Robert Marquand wrote that Frost “did have a ...