In new story, Joyce Carol Oates skewers Robert Frost. October 18, 2013. By Ron Charles. In July, Harper’s magazine ran a snide broadside against modern poetry. But next month, it gets personal.

When Robert Frost moved from his stone house and farm in Vermont, his son took on the day-to-day responsibilities. “His son, Carol, appears to have suffered from some kind of mental illness from ...

Books: The Poet Laureate (Robert Frost) 5 minute read. TIME. March 30, 1962 12:00 AM GMT-5 “Came within an ace of dying. Pneumonia. ... Robert Frost walked slowly and carefully.

Somebody recently opened the book, and there it was written out in perfect Robert Frostian handwriting, dated 1918. And it was elegant. And, my God, it had not been seen before.

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.

A Celebration of Frost's 150th Birthday, Friday, March 29, 7:30 p.m., at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. Free; registration required. townhalltheater.org ...