Authenticity is obvious in paintings signed by Michelangelo. A painting from the same period, with the same skill, 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 ...

Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry; by Adam Plunkett; Farrar, Straus & Giroux 512 pp., $37.00. Frost’s wife, Elinor, died in March 1938.

Robert Frost, who turned 20 in 1894, uncertain of his gift, bouncing among stray gigs (actor’s manager, repairer of lights at a wool mill) in Lawrence, Massachusetts, had written a poem called ...

Robert Frost, who turned 20 in 1894, uncertain of his gift, bouncing among stray gigs (actor’s manager, repairer of lights at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Robert Frost's poem in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire sets the apocalyptic tone and captures the overarching themes of the movie.; The poem's deeper meaning connects to the movie's themes of good vs ...

Jay Parini, a Robert Frost biographer, on “Nothing New,” a poem Frost wrote in 1918, which is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

It consists of 59 lines and is one of the most anthologized poems by Robert Frost. The poem “Birches ... He loves life and sees the earth as the right place for love. Birches is also a Truth poem.

Yet “Love and Need” proves an illuminating tour of Frost’s life as well as his afterlife on the page, and these nuanced readings deepen our understanding of his still-powerful poems. Mr.