‘Biography Across the Digitized Globe: Essays in Honour of Hans Renders’ Edited by David Veltman and Daniel R. Meister Brill, 328 Pages ‘Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry’ By Adam ...

On this day in history, March 26, 1874, American poet and Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California. He was initially unsuccessful as a poet.

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 ...

Poet Robert Frost, with works such as "The Road Not Taken," is a quintessential American poet. When following his path through New England, ...

Adam Plunkett’s Love and Need offers something of a recuperation of Robert Frost by reminding us that the poet's fierceness is also a source of the considerable power of his work.

This genre-bending bio-novel considers Frost's life through the lens of his last year and his 1962 trip to Russia.

Half a century after Robert Frost’s death, his reputation remains contentious. His image as a kindly New England swinger of birches and walker through snowy woods was tainted by his one-time ...

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 my ...

A critic wrestles with Robert Frost’s life and verse. In “Love and Need," Adam Plunkett proves himself an ideal biographer for the famously mercurial poet. February 18, 2025. 6 min ...