‘Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry’ by Adam Plunkett More than six decades after Robert Frost’s death, “it’s hard to think of a better-known poet who is more difficult ...

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Frost's most famous poem is misread as a celebration of American nonconformists, writes SU professor. To true nonconformists, it would have evoked the era's racial violence.

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

Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry By Adam Plunkett Farrar, Straus and Giroux 512 pages We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site.

Adam Plunkett’s Love and Need offers something of a recuperation of Robert Frost by reminding us that the poet's fierceness is also a source of the considerable power of his work.

As Robert Frost’s fame grew, the requests for readings of poetry by and interviews with the Yankee poet from New Hampshire increased what was life at his Franconia farm like?

In the new book \“Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry\” Adam Plunkett challenges previous biographers’ interpretations of Frost’s life and work breaking away from what he ...

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 ...

A critic wrestles with Robert Frost’s life and verse In “Love and Need," Adam Plunkett proves himself an ideal biographer for the famously mercurial poet ...