Robert Frost
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Is Robert Frost Even a Good Poet? March 21, 2025
Though he is most often associated with New England, Robert Frost (1874–1963) was born in San Francisco. He dropped out of both Dartmouth and Harvard, taught school like his mother did before him, and became a farmer, the sleeping-in kind, since he w...
Robert Frost's Accidental Late Start April 25, 2024
Robert Frost first joined literary society when he gatecrashed a bookshop party in the winter of 1913. Frost had no invitation. He was a poet, but he had published no book. He was in London, the city of poets, but he was a mountain farmer from Vermon...
William H. Pritchard and the Twilight of Literary Criticism April 17, 2024
Ear Training is a retrospective collection of writings by nonagenarian William H. Pritchard, the Henry Clay Folger Professor of English, Emeritus, at Amherst College. The author is an Amherst man through and through. He took the A. B. there in 1953 a...
How Robert Frost Made Poetry Modern December 12, 2023
In the cemetery outside Old First Congregational Church in Bennington, Vermont, among other stone markers that “doubtless bear names that the mosses mar,” is a long, rectangular gravestone embossed with seven names: those of poet Robert Lee Frost; hi...
The Poetry of Autumn November 03, 2022
Autumn as a season, for example, is evocative of many things: the darkness of decay, to be sure, alongside bold beauty. The flashy fire of the autumnal landscape and its sudden snuffing out both remind us that God’s book of nature often speaks in unm...
Belief is Better April 10, 2020
Volume One of Robert Frost’s Letters wound up in 1919 with his resignation from a teaching position at Amherst College, where he disliked the progressive curriculum fostered by the President, Alexander Meiklejohn. By the second year of Volume Two, h...
An Equilateral Triangle April 10, 2020
Robert Frost (1874–1963) and Edward Thomas (1878–1917) are the Pound and Eliot of regular verse, twentieth-century poets who, by tearing off the fustian and listening to how people actually speak, showed how “making it new” need have nothing to do wi...
Robert Frost's Correspondence March 27, 2020
Volume One of Robert Frost’s Letters wound up in 1919 with his resignation from a teaching position at Amherst College, where he disliked the progressive curriculum fostered by the President, Alexander Meiklejohn. By the second year of Volume Two, h...
The Beauty of Robert Frost's New England August 06, 2019
For much of my adult life, I’ve lived in the country Robert Frost called “north of Boston.” There were seven years in New Hampshire, now 36 in Vermont. And I feel pretty sure I’ll end my days surrounded by small villages, isolated farms, stands of ma...
Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain December 26, 2018
“Whose woods these are, I think I”—whoa! We can't quote any more of Robert Frost's “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” because it is still under copyright as this magazine goes to press. But come January 1, 2019, we, you, and everyone in America ...
13 Ways of Looking at Wallace Stevens May 28, 2017
When Wallace Stevens was seventy-two, he received the Robert Frost Gold Medal from the Poetry Society of America......
Insight Into the History and Application of Metaphor January 31, 2017
Poet Robert Frost once said, "An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor."...
