Love and Need

In Love and Need, Adam Plunkett traces the connections between Robert Frost's personal life—including his marriage to Elinor, family tragedies, and affair with Kay Morrison—and the creation of his poems.

Drawing on newly available letters and diaries, Plunkett analyzes works like 'The Pasture,' 'The Freedom of the Moon,' and 'The Silken Tent' to reveal how Frost's affections, needs, and contradictions fueled his art.

The book restores Frost's complexity as both poet and person, emphasizing themes of love, need, work, and play from poems such as 'Two Tramps in Mud Time.

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