Half a century after Robert Frost’s death, his reputation remains contentious. His image as a kindly New England swinger of birches and walker through snowy woods was tainted by his one-time ...

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 ...

Robert Frost’s poem “Hyla Brook ... In his first book, “Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry,” the literary critic Adam Plunkett ... In 1940 Frost’s son Carol took his ...

He Digs His Songs from the Soil of Vermont A poet of New England; but a poet first of all of the American character, Robert Frost is best known for his second volume of verse, North of Boston.

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.

Frost’s behavior sometimes justified that fear. The year after Carol’s suicide, he set fire to the schoolbooks of his friend Kay Morrison’s 4-year-old daughter, after picking them up and ...

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.