As a child exploring our large, packed attic in the 1940s, I found papers my mother had stashed in rafters. They included a crumbling acket of love letters and several carefully typed poems, one of ...

After teaching Robert Frost’s poetry in my Hopkins Odyssey class last week, I decided — since literature is life — to ask several friends not only to read — or re-read — his most famous poem, “The ...

“A poem begins with a lump in the throat, a homesickness or lovesickness,” Robert Frost explained on his first visit to Boulder in 1931. “A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought ...

Robert Frost presented himself as a simple man. Not for him the literary circles of London or the stilted dinner parties of Brahmin Boston. Nor was he at home in academia. He dropped out of college ...

Robert Frost was right. At the conclusion of his poem “The Road not Taken,” he wrote: “I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” I would never equate my recent adventure ...