BERNARD DE VOTO put the contradiction simply: "You're a good poet, Robert, but you're a bad man." Another friend of Robert Frost, Theodore Morrison, wrote an appraisal that was at once more ...

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 and the Future of Biography. The expertly edited ‘Biography Across the Digitized Globe’ is a kind of battle for recognition of biographers and their subjects that AI may tend to usurp but ...

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 ...

In the decades since, critics and biographers have pushed back on this dim view of Frost. William H. Pritchard, in “Robert Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered,” from 1993, which has long been ...

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

Badly upset, and in a state of screw-it-all young-man desperation, Frost packed his bag, left Lawrence (“without even a note to his mother,” tuts Jay Parini in his Robert Frost: A Life, from ...

In his first book, “Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry,” the literary critic Adam Plunkett interweaves discussions of the poet’s life and works to show that Frost could also ...

The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry. By Adam Plunkett. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 500 pp. $37. Comments. A note to our readers.