Poetry great Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco, California, on this day in history, March 26, 1874. Frost spent the first 11 years of his life in San Francisco until his father, journalist ...

There are not that many biographies of biographers. James Boswell is an exception, and biographers like Fawn Brodie and Kitty Kelley, who have gotten into trouble for writing about the likes of Joseph ...

I don’t mind being made controversial. No sweeter music can come to my ears than the clash of arms over my dead body when I am down. —Robert Frost to Lionel Trilling, June 18, 1959 It was Frost’s ...

In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably — which, for Frost, meant as mischievously — as possible: “Am I any good? That’s what I’d like to know and all I need to know.” The ...

Robert Frost weathered family tragedy at the stone house in Shaftsbury, Vermont. Today he and his family are buried nearby. The Frost family grave in Bennington, Vermont. When Robert Frost moved from ...

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 ...

It is the most famous poem in American literature, a staple of pop songs, newspaper columnists and valedictorian speeches. It is “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost: Everyone can quote those final ...

I was surprised that, in her review of a new book on Robert Frost, Abigail Deutsch refers to the poet as a “terrifying man” (Books, Feb. 22). That doesn’t track with my own experience. In my ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry, by Adam Plunkett, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 512 pages. Among the countless ways to ...

A series of Christmas cards and booklets containing poetry by the legendary poet Robert Frost will be on display at a Vermont college for the first time in over half a century years, reports says.