Robert Frost: Life with Poetry. ... Yet, with the publication of A Boy's Will in England in 1913, when Frost was 39 years old, his literary life began to tip giddily into a new dimension.

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 ...

‘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 ...

At the end of his life, Robert Frost was living in a cabin on the 150-acre Homer Noble Farm near the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Middlebury, Vermont.The director of the conference ...

Badly upset, and in a state of screw-it-all young-man desperation, Frost packed his bag, left Lawrence (“without even a note to his mother,” tuts Jay Parini in his Robert Frost: A Life, from ...

Roughly half of “Love and Need” dwells on Frost’s later decades, a difficult period for the poet, and Plunkett focusses more on biography than on criticism. In 1934, Frost lost his favorite ...

But his darker themes, such as isolation and loss, once inspired Lionel Trilling to call Frost “a terrifying poet.” In his first book, “Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry ...

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 ...