In his first book, “Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry,” the ... suffering multiple heart attacks. In 1940 Frost’s son Carol took his own life. And in 1947 Frost’s daughter ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly called The Independent. “On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in ...

Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.

In a 1930 letter, Robert ... to say that Frost’s life was filled with destruction of various kinds. His first son, Elliott, died of cholera in 1900 at the age of 3. Another son, Carol, took ...

A fond memory of the poet.

At the end of his life, Robert Frost was living in ... Like many American writers in the 20th century, Frost had to go to England to make it. His first book, A Boy’s Life, was published by ...

Take Robert ... Brilliant book. But it's got wonderful winter poems in it. One of them is the "Dust Of Snow." And I always - as soon as I read this new poem, "Nothing New," by Frost, I thought ...

The Holden Frost House sits just north of Cannon Mountain, with views of its trails and majestic Franconia Notch and ...