Hans Renders, recently retired from his professorship at the University of Groningen ... A case in point is Adam Plunkett’s superb new biography of Robert Frost, written not only as a searching ...

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 ...

The fence had been built in a shadowbox style, and the gaps between the boards gave reaching vines room for twisting. Their ...

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 ...

“On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in his new Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry, “the poetry ...

As readers of his poetry, we’re just along for the ride. The critic Adam Plunkett expertly teases out the many meanings of Frost’s poems in “Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s ...

More than six decades after Robert Frost’s death ... “In both his poetry and his personal life, Frost was a trickster, saying ...

The best of Robert Frost, like the best of most writers ... Because political fashions changed during the last decades of his life, the aged Frost found himself being applauded for precisely ...

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