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“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, / That wants it down,” Robert Frost observed in his poem “Mending Wall.” I am one of those somethings. When the speaker of Frost’s poem ...
The New Hampshire Literary Hall of Fame includes Robert Frost, John Irving ... of restoring and preserving the Thomas Bailey Aldrich Garden. The Colonial Revival Garden was created between ...
A case in point is Adam Plunkett’s superb new biography of Robert Frost, written not only as a searching commentary on a poet’s life and work, and the influence of other poets on him, but as a deeply ...
Frost could be mean and egotistical, said Anthony Domestico in The Washington Post. After his wife died, he began, in his 60s, to obsess over his secretary, a far younger woman married to a friend.
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.
Harvey Teres is the William P. Tolley Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities and Dean’s Professor for the Public Humanities in English at Syracuse University. It is the end of what ...
Robert Frost presented himself as a simple man. Not for him the literary circles of London or the stilted dinner parties of Brahmin Boston. Nor was he at home in academia. He dropped out of ...
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 ...
At the end of his life, Robert ... God’s pursuit of man,” Plunkett writes, “‘My Butterfly’ inverts the search for inspiration into the spirit’s pursuit of the being it possesses ...
Produced in 1997, This special features the works of Robert Frost. Produced in 1997 ... children planted and cared for a large vegetable garden, and in their first Franconia spring, assisted ...
There may be no poet more integral to the American identity are more widely known among Americans than Robert Frost. Yet, his life and the extent of his influence are unfamiliar or misunderstood ...
In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities ... biography with such moments, reading Frost’s life like a jilted lover; I thought he was a god but he’s actually a demon wafts off ...