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We need to think not of what gives us hope, but of who gives us hope in the midst of this challenge to democracy.
“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, / That wants it down,” Robert Frost observed in his poem “Mending Wall.” I am one of those somethings. When the speaker of Frost’s poem ...
New Hampshire is home to several famous and award-winning authors. The New Hampshire Literary Hall of Fame includes Robert Frost, John Irving, Ernest Thompson, Donald Hall, Grace Metalious, Harriet E.
A case in point is Adam Plunkett’s superb new biography of Robert Frost, written not only as a searching commentary on a poet’s life and work, and the influence of other poets on him, but as a deeply ...
Nicola Muirhead For much of my adult life, I’ve lived in the country Robert Frost called ... and this seems especially true of Frost and the images he summons in his poems.
Frost could be mean and egotistical, said Anthony Domestico in The Washington Post. After his wife died, he began, in his 60s, to obsess over his secretary, a far younger woman married to a friend.
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.
Vermont can learn a valuable lesson from New Hampshire (“The Grass Is Greener Outside of the Green Mountain State,” Letters, Feb. 18): Robert Frost once wrote that the two states were ...
Harvey Teres is the William P. Tolley Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities and Dean’s Professor for the Public Humanities in English at Syracuse University. It is the end of what ...
Robert Frost’s poem “Hyla Brook ... It was there, far from America, that Frost began making his name as a writer. All the while, he had been developing his poetic style.