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Harry Potter star Nick Frost discusses his approach to playing Hagrid on HBO's upcoming TV show and how it compares to Robbie ...
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 ...
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.
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 presented himself as a simple man ... Is the speaker appreciating a peaceful winter scene or barely suppressing a death wish? One could ask similar questions about “The Road ...
Robert Frost’s poem “Hyla Brook” concludes with a resounding claim: “We love the things we love for what they are.” Frost’s greatest poems capture the details of his world as it was ...
At the end of his life, Robert Frost was living in a cabin on the 150-acre Homer Noble Farm near the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Middlebury, Vermont. The director of the conference ...
“On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in his new Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry ... woodpile in the middle of winter, a thing of utter dereliction ...
In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably — which, for Frost, meant as mischievously — as possible: “Am I any good? That’s what I’d like to know and all I need to ...
LIMBONG: Jay Parini is a poet, novelist and Robert Frost biographer. Thank you so much for your time. PARINI: Thank you, Andrew. It's been good to be here. LIMBONG: Happy Winter. PARINI ...