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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 ...
It’s not fear” As he talked last week in South Miami, Robert Frost walked slowly ... Udall (“Udall is poetry-struck”), Frost spoke his mind and recited his poems before a black-tie ...
Frost could be mean and egotistical, said Anthony Domestico in The Washington Post. After his wife died, he began, in his 60s, to obsess over his secretary, a far younger woman married to a friend.
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.
It’s exactly what Robert Frost asked us to avoid when he wrote ... their fierce independence of mind, and their freedom to choose their own fates. The speaker of the poem, after all, is a ...
The critic Adam Plunkett expertly teases out the many meanings of Frost’s poems in “Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Blending biography and ...
Produced in 1997, This special features the works of Robert Frost. Produced in 1997, This special features the works of Robert Frost. Filmed at the Frost home in Franconia, NH it features the ...
There may be no poet more integral to the American identity are more widely known among Americans than Robert Frost. Yet ... and the Leon Levy Center for Biography.
“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 ...
Was Frost any good? Poetically speaking, yes. Morally speaking, not always, and in his excellent new biography, “Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry,” critic Adam Plunkett ...
Sometimes things live up to their name. Take Robert Frost. The four-time-Pulitzer-winning poet is known for his wintry poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING ...