{"product_id":"love-and-need-adam-plunkett-9780374282080","title":"Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost's Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBraiding together biography and criticism, Adam Plunkett challenges our understanding of Robert Frost's life and poetic legacy in a pathbreaking new work. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy the middle of the twentieth century, Robert Frost was the best-loved poet in America. He was our nation's bard, simple and sincere, accompanying us on wooded roads and articulating our hopes and fears. After Frost's death, these cliches gave way to equally broad (though opposed) portraits sketched by his biographers, chief among them Lawrance Thompson. When the critic Helen Vender reviewed Thompson's biography, she asked\u003cbr\u003ewhether anyone could avoid the conclusion that Frost was a \"monster.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLove and Need: The Life of Robert Frost's Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 through a careful look at the poems and people he knew best, showing how the stories of his most important relationships, \u003cbr\u003eheretofore 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving through Frost's most important work and closest relationships with the attention to detail necessary to see familiar things anew, 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\u003cbr\u003eon. Frost invited his readers into a conversation like the one he sustained with his literary forebears, intimate and profound, yet Frost 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Plunkett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374282080\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374282080\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/18\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Adam Plunkett","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46070443114751,"sku":"9780374282080","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a84167a8-23ff-40b3-9c48-e3d07dc9613e.jpg?v=1724243280","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/love-and-need-adam-plunkett-9780374282080","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}