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 ...

“On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in his new Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry ... on the problem of having a mind—of simply being conscious ...

ROBERT FROST more than spans in his lifetime the distance between nineteenthand twentiethcentury poetry, and yet he is more a poet of his age than many younger poets writing today. Though he was ...