No two men more represented the homespun American spirit of the 20th century than composer Randall Thompson and poet Robert Frost. They came together most memorably when Thompson set seven of Frost’s ...

It’s exactly what Robert Frost asked ... a lot in a poem of only 20 lines — that there never was a road “less traveled” because there was no real difference between the roads.

As I turned up the meandering driveway leading to my vacation weekend home base, it was natural to slip right into one of the most famed Robert Frost poems: “Two roads diverged in a wood ...