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.

Up they float into bad-poem limbo, where their bad lines, loose and weedlike, drift and coil and tangle with one another ...

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 ...