And winter for Frost is a psychological landscape, an interior place of nostalgia, beauty, fear, death. All of these things pile in on poems about winter written by Frost.

Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry; by Adam Plunkett; Farrar, Straus & Giroux 512 pp., $37.00. Frost’s wife, Elinor, died in March 1938.

And winter for Frost is a psychological landscape, an interior place of nostalgia, beauty, fear, death. All of these things pile in on poems about winter written by Frost.