Adam Plunkett; Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry

Adam Plunkett is a 2016 – 2017 Fellow

By the middle of the twentieth century, Robert Frost was the best-loved poet in America. He was our nation’s bard, simple and sincere, accompanying us on wooded roads and articulating our hopes and fears. After Frost’s death, these clichés gave way to equally broad (though opposed) portraits sketched by his biographers, chief among them Lawrance Thompson.