A fond memory of the poet.

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 ...

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

Was Frost any good? Poetically speaking, yes. Morally speaking, not always, and in his excellent new biography, “Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry,” critic Adam Plunkett ...

Take Robert Frost. The four-time-Pulitzer-winning poet ... What I'm getting here is both nostalgia for childhood, you know, a time when I was a kid and the spray of dust hit my face, and suddenly ...