‘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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Plunkett recently completed a new Robert Frost biography entitled "Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry.". His program will take place on Monday, Feb. 24, at 7 p.m., in Mercy Hall ...

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 .

After William’s death in 1885, Isabelle moved, with 11-year-old Robert and his younger sister Jeanie, to Massachusetts.At Lawrence High School, Frost encountered Cicero, Virgil, and, perhaps ...

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.

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 ...