I was surprised that, in her review of a new book on Robert Frost, Abigail Deutsch refers to the poet as a “terrifying man” (Books, Feb. 22). That doesn’t track with my own experience.

“On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in his new Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry, “the poetry editor called the rest of the staff over to listen because ...

In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably — which, for Frost, meant as mischievously — as possible: “Am I any good? That’s what I’d like to know and all I need to ...