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

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 ...

To celebrate the 150th birthday of Robert Frost, one of America’s most cherished ... The free public sessions including poetry workshops, lectures, and roundtable discussions.

Sometimes things live up to their name. Take Robert Frost. The four-time-Pulitzer-winning poet is known for his wintry poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING ...

ROBERT Frost has been ... whatever that country is. Frost's country is the country of human sense: of experience, of imagination, and of thought. His poems start at home, as all good poems do ...

Robert Frost, winner of four Pulitzer ... and recited instead "The Gift Outright," a poem he wrote 20 years ago. Last March 26, his 88th birthday, he received from President Kennedy a medal ...

There are no revelations in Love and Need, but Plunkett excels at bringing the poems to life with contextual details (such as the ones above) and literary resonances. Robert Frost in 1962.