"No sweeter music can come to my ears," Robert Frost once wrote a friend, "than the clash of arms over my dead body when I am down." Frost's ghost, then, can be grateful to New York Times poetry ...

After teaching Robert Frost’s poetry in my Hopkins Odyssey class last week, I decided — since literature is life — to ask several friends not only to read — or re-read — his most famous poem, “The ...

When you think of Robert Frost, a certain string of descriptors likely leaps to mind: “hateful human being,” “monster of egotism,” “mean-spirited megalomaniac,” that sort of thing. Hold on. Do I have ...

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 may be ...

Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” concludes with the lines: “two roads diverged in a wood and I—I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference.” Having just returned ...