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

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

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 ...

At the end of his life, Robert Frost ... the book for Poetry and praised Frost at the expense of American editors and readers in a way that Frost found tasteless. The two were never close again.

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 ...