A woman who has just got married is challenged by a stranger who puts her question of love and kindness to the test in the form of a simple request for help.

In Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing (1977), Richard Poirier suggests that “The Silken Tent” is a metaphor for the sonnet form itself, demonstrating what it is like for a poem, as well as a tent or a ...

These stark yet stunning landscapes inspired the lyricism of the American titan of poetry Photographs by ... I’ve lived in the country Robert Frost called “north of Boston.” ...

The best of Robert Frost ... These lyrics mark Frost as a severe and unaccommodating writer: they are ironic, troubled and ambiguous in many of the ways modernist poems are.

Ossmann, an editor and poet who grew up in Vacaville, is returning home to the Vacaville Town Square Library for a call and ...

Robert Frost published his poem Mending Wall. It opens his collection of poetry entitled North of Boston. Frost’s poem is about two neighbors who go through the same ritual each spring. They meet at a ...

Bennington College has a unique literary legacy, including twelve Pulitzer Prize winners, three U.S. poet laureates, four MacArthur Geniuses, countless New York Times bestselling authors, and two of ...

Someone I met a few years ago, a big poetry person, just could not believe that an adult would spend years of his life thinking about Robert Frost. To her it seemed like doing a Ph.D. in simple ...

Navigate your way into this beautiful art form with this list of the most famous poems ever written ... On the surface, Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is a beautiful account of the ...

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April is National Poetry Month, so this month’s pick is a book of selected poetry from W. H. Auden. W. H. Auden is a 20th-century poet, born in England before immigrating to the United States in ...

To judge from a spate of recent Catullus-inspired work, including an English rendering of selected poems, by Stephen Mitchell, and “Switch: The Complete Catullus,” a dizzyingly idiosyncratic ...