Our critic A.O. Scott gazes into a well with Robert Frost. By A.O. Scott Stopping to reconsider the most famous seasonal poem about stopping to reconsider. By Elisa Gabbert Some of the best ...

Caroline Kennedy, Tracy K. Smith & more read Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” with Elisa New. Do good fences really make good neighbors? Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” asks surprising questions about the ...

Whose words these are I think I know. I think you know, too. These words, with one change, were penned by Robert Frost in 1922, the opening line of one of America’s most revered and recited poems, ...

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 ...

DERRY, N.H. — Each spring more than a century ago, Robert Frost’s neighbor insisted on repairing the stone wall crumbling between their two properties. He told Frost, “Good fences make good neighbors.

“Came within an ace of dying. Pneumonia. They call it the old man’s friend —it takes you easy. But they gave me tons of penicillin. I said to my doctor, ‘What do you call penicillin if it’s the enemy ...

First published in the Virginia Quarterly Review in 1928, today’s poem by Robert Frost (1874–1963) takes up the dark undercurrent hinted at in his famous 1923 poem, “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy ...

Recently while walking down St. Paul’s Summit Avenue one chilly evening, I am reminded of Robert Frost’s poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” There are no woods near, but rather homes adorned ...

When Robert Frost penned his poems he may not have ever envisioned his words set to bluegrass music, but something tells me this lyrical soul would have appreciated the creative effort. Matt and ...

WAITSFIELD, Vt. — The hills are alive with the sound of conflict. One side of this melodic controversy features Elisabeth von Trapp, singing the words of Robert Frost. Opposing her are scholars who ...

When Fred Hoyt, former chief custodian at Arlington High School, lay dying of cancer in 2007, his good friend Ken Nicholson, who had been a biology teacher at the school, was visiting at his bedside.