Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That wants it down. “Mending Wall” is only one of many poems inspired by Frost’s years living on a 30-acre farm in Derry from 1900 to 1911 ...

Robert Frost and his wife, Elinor, moved to the farm in October 1900. The property was purchased by his paternal grandfather to give the financially struggling young family a place to reboot their ...

To the Editor: Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" has been subjected to many conflicting interpretations, but your April 22 editorial gives the correct one. The "pro-wall" speaker was Frost's French ...

The best of Robert Frost, ... “Birches,” “Mending Wall,” “The Death of the Hired Man,” “The Pasture”—such poems are not contemptible but neither are they first-rate.

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 ...

When the speaker of Frost’s poem wonders what use a wall might be that encloses no livestock, I wonder that, too. When he asks his neighbor just how it is that good fences make good neighbors ...

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.