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great American poetry
Lawrance Thompson
literary criticism
literary nonfiction
New England
New Hampshire
poet biography
robert frost
snowy evening
stopping by the woods
the road not taken
two roads diverged
Product details
- ISBN 9781250420336
- Weight: 393g
- Dimensions: 141 x 213mm
- Publication Date: 16 Mar 2026
- Publisher: St Martin's Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry, Adam Plunkett blends biography and criticism to find the truth of Frost’s life—one that lies between the two poles of perception. Plunkett reveals a new Frost, showing how the stories of his most significant relationships, heretofore only partly told, mirror dominant themes of Frost’s enduring poetry: withholding and disclosure, privacy and intimacy. Not least of these relationships is the fraught, intense friendship between Frost and Thompson, the major biographer whose record of Frost Plunkett seeks to set straight.
Moving through Frost’s most important work and closest relationships, Plunkett offers an original interpretation of Frost’s poetry, tracing Frost’s distinctive achievement to an engagement with poetic tradition far deeper and more extensive than he ever let on. Frost invited his readers into a conversation like the one he sustained with his literary forebears, intimate and profound, yet he kept his private self at a remove. Here, Plunkett brings the two together—the poet and the poetry—and draws us back into conversation with America’s poet.
Adam Plunkett, a literary critic, has received fellowship support for Love and Need from organizations such as the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Leon Levy Center for Biography. This is his first book.
