The best of Robert Frost ... it would be impossible to mistake for the work of anyone else. These lyrics mark Frost as a severe and unaccommodating writer: they are ironic, troubled and ambiguous ...

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 ...

At the end of his life, Robert Frost was living ... of beauty in the earlier work to the surefooted simplicity of a poem such as “Mowing.” The early poems are “written from the inaccessible ...

Gradually, over the last three decades, Robert Frost has abandoned ... lyric intensity of his earlier works. Increasingly, he is content with sententious verse written with the negligent ...

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 ...

Robert Frost presented himself as a ... But, more often, Plunkett’s work pays off. Many know that “The Road Not Taken” was written for the English poet Edward Thomas, Frost’s close friend ...

We can’t quote any more of Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods ... produced a different version of the work, titled “Sleep,” with lyrics written for it by the poet Charles Anthony Silvestri.

Robert Frost, who turned 20 in 1894, uncertain of his gift, bouncing among stray gigs (actor’s manager, repairer of lights at ...

Morally speaking, not always, and in his excellent new biography, “Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry,” critic Adam Plunkett wrestles with how to fit the mercurial work (no ...

“On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in his new Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry, “the poetry editor called the rest of the staff over to listen because ...