But his darker themes, such as isolation and loss, once inspired Lionel Trilling to call Frost “a terrifying poet.” In his ...

Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with ...

Robert Frost, who turned 20 in 1894 ... I would have left him to molder in the slush pile. Plunkett, whose book offers close readings of the poems as well as the life, quite likes “My Butterfly.” ...

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In a Christian Science Monitor review of Andrew R. Marks’ 1994 book, “The Rabbi and the Poet,” which examines the relationship between Frost and Reichert, Robert Marquand wrote that Frost “did have a ...

I was surprised that, in her review of a new book on Robert Frost, Abigail Deutsch refers to the poet as a “terrifying man” (Books, Feb. 22). That doesn’t track with my own experience.

More than six decades after Robert Frost’s death ... he published his first book of poems. Plunkett, however, “takes a ...