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

The board, staff and students of Mendocino Ballet are feeling the renewing energy of Spring: a new façade on the front of ...

The New Hampshire Literary Hall of Fame includes Robert ... Frost and his family from 1900 to 1911. While here, Frost farmed the land, taught at nearby Pinkerton Academy, and wrote several poems.

These stark yet stunning landscapes inspired the lyricism of the American titan of poetry Photographs by ... I’ve lived in the country Robert Frost called “north of Boston.” ...

It’s not fear” As he talked last week in South Miami, Robert Frost walked ... Many of his poems are half wisdom and half whimsy, and Frost often seems to be sharing a sly, private joke with ...

He focuses instead on the poetry, which he rightly characterizes as being at heart about the ambiguity of human motives. In Plunkett, “Frost has found an ideal biographer,” one who’s ...

Vermont can learn a valuable lesson from New Hampshire (“The Grass Is Greener Outside of the Green Mountain State,” Letters, Feb. 18): Robert ... evidence tells. Frost’s poem needs an ...

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 ...

Robert Frost’s poem “Hyla Brook” concludes with a resounding claim: “We love the things we love for what they are.” Frost’s greatest poems capture the details of his world as it was ...

There are no revelations in Love and Need, but Plunkett excels at bringing the poems to life with contextual details (such as the ones above) and literary resonances. Robert Frost in 1962.

“On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in his new Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry, “the poetry editor called the rest of the staff over to listen because ...

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 ...