Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Since Mother’s Day is right around the corner, this week I’ll share some ...

The great thing about archival work is there's always one more page to turn over. For graduate student Robert Stilling, finding a handwritten Robert Frost poem on the opening pages of a leatherbound ...

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood…" is the start of perhaps one of the best-known, most-quoted poems in American history. While the poem, Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken," might have become ...

When I heard that a previously unpublished poem by Robert Frost had been discovered, I was skeptical. I know Frost’s poetry well, having written “Robert Frost: A Life” and, quite recently, a small ...

Sometimes things live up to their name. Take Robert Frost. The four-time-Pulitzer-winning poet is known for his wintry poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) ...

Robert Frost’s most famous poem, “The Road Not Taken,” turns 100 this month, and it has not aged well. That’s no fault of the poem, which exists on its own terms, but the countless ways in which its ...

SHAFTSBURY >> TIME magazine's "Best of the Century" list published on New Year's Eve in 1999 ranked Robert Frost's poem, "Home Burial" number three, beat only by W.B. Yeats's "The Second Coming" and T ...