‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ROBERT FROST A Biography By Jeffrey Meyers Illustrated. 424 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $30. By Michiko Kakutani . Book Notes. Poets Out of Their Youth . Mary B. W. Tabor .

William H. Pritchard, in “Robert Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered,” from 1993, which has long been the gold-standard biography for many Frost enthusiasts, emphasized the poet’s ingenuity ...

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.

Jay Parini is a poet, novelist and Robert Frost biographer. He wrote about the poem "Nothing New" for The New Yorker, and he joins us now. Welcome, Jay. JAY PARINI: Andrew, thank you for having me on.

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 ...

Robert Frost’s home is vandalized, British law paves way for Russian art show, Jennifer Garner is the 2007 West Virginian of the Year and more culture news. Compiled by Lawrence Van Gelder Frost ...