Another friend of Robert Frost, Theodore Morrison ... Much of Frost's life occurred on paper--when not in poems, in letters which reveal a man acutely aware of his position in the literary ...

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.

The critic Adam Plunkett expertly teases out the many meanings of Frost’s poems in “Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Blending biography and ...

The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry,” critic Adam Plunkett wrestles with how to fit the mercurial work (no American poet shifts tones so suddenly or subtly as Frost) with the mercurial life.

The fence had been built in a shadowbox style, and the gaps between the boards gave reaching vines room for twisting. Their ...

In his first book, “Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry,” the literary critic Adam Plunkett interweaves discussions of the poet’s life and works to show that Frost could also ...

“On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in his new Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry, “the poetry ...

More than six decades after Robert Frost’s death ... “In both his poetry and his personal life, Frost was a trickster, saying ...