Robert Frost’s most creative work, on his own estimation, appeared early in his life, yet his accumulation of fame and social honours continued to the end of his long life. Warren Hope considers carefully Frost’s poetic output, to distinguish, as Frost indicated, between the work that is ‘bardic’ and that which is real poetry. Hope touches also on Frost’s troubled life and the role of poetry in it.

Warren Hope is a poet, a critic and university lecturer. He lives and works in Philadelphia, where he raised his family.