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20. Interview with Robert Penn Warren.
21. Interview with Alastair Reid, November 5, 1997.
22. SL, 589.
23. F. D. Reeve, Robert Frost in Russia (Boston: Atlantic–Little, Brown, 1964), 3–4.
24. See Afterword: Frost and His Biographers.
25. Reeve, 14.
26. Reeve, 20.
27. Reeve, 26.
28. Reeve, 50–51.
29. Reeve, 63.
30. Reeve, 69–70.
31. Reeve, 81.
32. Reeve, 111.
33. Reeve, 112.
34. Reeve, 113–14.
35. Reeve, 114–15.
36. Reeve, 116.
37. Reeve, 117.
38. Reeve, 119.
39. Lathem, Interviews, 291.
40. Reeve, 120.
41. Frost’s speech is reprinted in National Poetry Festival, Held in the Library of Congress, October 22–24, 1962 (Library of Congress, Washington, 1964), 228–59. Also quoted by Thompson and Winnick, 328.
42. Peter J. Stanlis interview.
43. This talk was published as “Robert Frost on ‘Extravagance,’” in the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine (March 1963), 21–24.
44. Recorded by Anne Morrison Gentry. Quoted by Thompson and Winnick, 343.
45. SL, 596.
CONCLUSION
1. Theodore Morrison, “The Agitated Heart,” Atlantic Monthly (July 1967), 72.
2. SL, 221.
3. Faggen, 9.
4. SL, 344.
5. Frost notebooks. DCL.
6. See Ed Ingebretsen, Robert Frost’s Star in a Stone Boat: A Grammar of Belief (San Francisco: Catholic Scholars Press, 1994).
7. SL, 595–96.
8. Richardson, 5.
9. Kearns, 26.
10. Interview with Reginald L. Cook.
AFTERWORD: FROST AND HIS BIOGRAPHERS
1. SL, 386.
2. Munson, 112–13.
3. Munson, 115.
4. Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, “Good Greek out of New England,” in Thornton, 149.
5. Sergeant, Robert Frost, 432–33.
6. Jean Gould, Robert Frost: The Aim Was Song (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1964).
7. Gould, ix.
8. Gould, 295.
9. Donald G. Sheehy, “The Poet as Neurotic: The Official Biography of Robert Frost,” American Literature (October 1986), 393–409.
10. Thompson, The Years of Triumph, xiv–xv.
11. Lawrance Thompson to Kathleen Morrison, September 2, 1945. DCL.
12. Pritchard, xvii–xviii.
13. Walsh, 9.
14. Burnshaw, 304.
15. Lesley Lee Francis, 2.
16. Donald G. Sheehy, “(Re)Figuring Love: Robert Frost in Crisis, 1938–1942,” New England Quarterly (June 1990), 179–231.
17. Helen Vendler, “Dark and Deep,” London Review of Books (July 4, 1996), 3.
18. Interview with Lesley Lee Francis.
19. Meyers, 217.
20. Meyers, 265.
21. Vendler, 5.
22. Frost notebook, undated. DCL. Included in Prose Jottings of Robert Frost: Selections from His Notebooks, eds. Edward Connery Lathem and Hyde Cox (Lunenburg, VT: Northeast Kingdom Publishers, 1982), 7.
23. CPPP, 721–22.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
I. WORKS BY FROST
The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer. Ed. Louis Untermeyer. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963.
Prose Jottings of Robert Frost. Ed. Edward Connery Lathem and Hyde Cox. Lunenburg, VT: Northeast Kingdom Publishers, 1982.
Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays. Ed. Richard Poirier and Mark Richardson. New York: Library of America, 1995.
Selected Letters of Robert Frost. Ed. Lawrance Thompson. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.
II. INTERVIEWS WITH FROST
Cook, Reginald L. Robert Frost: A Living Voice. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1974.
Francis, Robert. Frost: A Time to Talk—Conversations and Indiscretions. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1972.
Lathem, Edward Connery, ed. Interviews with Robert Frost. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966.
Mertins, Louis. Robert Frost: Life and Talks-Walking. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965.
Smythe, Daniel. Robert Frost Speaks. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1966.
III. BIOGRAPHIES AND MEMOIRS
Anderson, Margaret Bartlett. Robert Frost and John Bartlett: The Record of a Friendship. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963.
Burnshaw, Stanley. Robert Frost Himself. New York: G. Braziller, 1986.
Cox, Sidney. A Swinger of Birches: A Portrait of Robert Frost. Introduction by Robert Frost. New York: New York University Press, 1957.
Francis, Lesley Lee. The Frost Family’s Adventure in Poetry: Sheer Morning Gladness at the Brim. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1994.
Gould, Jean. Robert Frost: The Aim Was Song. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1964.
Meyers, Jeffrey. Robert Frost: A Biography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
Muir, Helen. Frost in Florida: A Memoir. Miami: Valiant Press, 1995.
Munson, Gorham B. Robert Frost: A Study in Sensibility and Good Sense. New York: George H. Doran, 1927.
Newdick, Robert. Newdick’s Season of Frost: An Interrupted Biography of Robert Frost. Ed. William A. Sutton. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1976.
Pritchard, William, H. Robert Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Reeve, F. D. Robert Frost in Russia. Boston: Little, Brown, 1964.
Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley. Robert Frost: The Trial by Existence. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960.
Thompson, Lawrance. Robert Frost: The Early Years, 1874–1915. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966.
———. Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915–1938. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.
Thompson, Lawrance, and R. H. Winnick. Robert Frost: The Later Years, 1938–1963. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976.
Walsh, John Evangelist. Into My Own: The English Years of Robert Frost. New York: Grove Press, 1988.
IV. CRITICISM
Bagby, George. Robert Frost and the Book of Nature. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993.
Brodsky, Joseph, Seamus Heaney, and Derek Walcott. Homage to Robert Frost. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996.
Brower, Reuben. The Poetry of Robert Frost: Constellations of Intention. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965.
Cook, Reginald L. The Dimensions of Robert Frost. New York: Rinehart, 1958.
Cox, James M., ed. Robert Frost: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1962.
Cramer, Jeffrey S. Robert Frost Among His Poems: A Literary Companion to the Poet’s Own Biographical Contexts and Associations. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1996.
Faggen, Robert. Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
Frost: Centennial Essays. Compiled by the Committee on the Frost Centennial of the University of Southern Mississippi. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1974–78.
Gerber, Philip L., ed. Critical Essays on Robert Frost. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1982.
Kearns, Katherine. Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Kemp, John C. Robert Frost and New England: The Poet as Regionalist. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.
Lentricchia, Frank. Robert Frost: Modern Poetics and the Landscapes of Self. Durham: Duke University Press, 1975.
Lynen, John F. The Pastoral Art of Robert Frost. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.
Monteiro, George. Robert Frost and the New England Renaissance. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988.
Nitchie, George W. Human Values in the Poetry of Robert Frost. Durham: Duke University Press, 1960.
Oster, Judith. Toward Robert Frost: The Reader and the Poet. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991.
Poirier, Richard. Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Richardson, Mark. The Ordeal of Robert Frost. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.
Sheehy, Donald G. “The Poet as Neurotic: The Official Biography of Robert Frost.” American Literature, October, 1986, 393–409.
———. “(Re) Figuring Love: Robert Frost in Crisis, 1938–1942.” New England Quarterly, June, 1990, 179–231.
Thompson, Lawrance. Fire and Ice: The Art and Thought of Robert Frost. New York: Russell & Russell, 1942.
Thornton, Richard. Recognition of Robert Frost: Twenty-fifth Anniversary. New York: Henry Holt, 1937.
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Abercrombie, Catherine
Abercrombie, Lascelles
RF’s letters to
Abrams, M. H.
Academy
“Acceptance”
“Acquainted with the Night”
written
Adams, Frederick B.
Adams, J. Donald
Adams, Sherman
“After Apple-Picking”
written
“After the End of a Poem” (lecture)
Agrarianism
Aiken, Conrad
“Aim Was Song, The”
Akhmatova, Anna
“Alastor” (Shelley)
Aldington, Richard
Alexeyev, Mikhail
Alfred, William
Allen, Hervey
“All Revelation”
American Mercury
Amherst Graduates’ Quarterly
Amherst Monthly
“Among School Children” (Yeats)
Anderson, Margaret B.
Anderson, Marion
Anthology of Magazine Verse (Braithwaite)
“Apple Peeler” (Francis)
Aquinas, Thomas
Aristotle
Arms and the Man (Shaw)
Arnold, Matthew
Arnold, Thurman
Arvin, Newton
“As I went down through the common…”
Athenaeum
Atlantic Monthly
At the Back of the North Wind (MacDonald)
“At Woodward’s Gardens”
Auden, W. H.
“Auspex”
Autobiography (Gibbon)
“Away!”
and “extravagance”
“Ax-Helve, The”
and nature of poetry
published
Babbitt, Frank Cole
Babbitt, Irving
Back to Methuselah (Shaw)
Bacon, Leonard
Bagby, George F.
Bailey, Loren E.
Baird, Theodore
Ballantine, Joseph W.
Balsa, Seth
Bartlett, John
meets RF
and Prescott Frost
RF’s letters to
Bartlett, Margaret
Elinor’s letter to
Bates, Katherine Lee
Baxter, Sylvester
Beach, Joseph Warren
“Bear, The”
Beauchamp, Lord
“Beech”
“Before the Beginning of a Poem” (lecture)
Benét, Stephen Vincent
Ben-Zvi, Itzhak
“Bereft”
Bergson, Henri
Berlin, Isaiah
Bernheimer, Earle J.
Beveridge, Lord and Lady
Billings, Josh
Bingham, Rev. George Washington
Binyon, Laurence
Biographia Literaria (Coleridge)
“Birches”
published in Atlantic
RF first swings on birches
vs. “To Earthward”
written
Bishop, Elizabeth
“Black Cottage, The”
Blackmur, R. P.
Blake, William
“Blue Ribbon at Amesbury, A”
Blunden, Edmund
Bode, Carl
Bogan, Louise
Bond, Harold
Bookman
Booth, Philip
Boston Evening Transcript
Boston Herald
Boston Post
Bowra, Sir Maurice
Boy’s Will, A
accepted for publication by Nutt
glosses, in original edition
option to publish more books
organized and completed in England
poems written
Pound reviews
reviews of
royalty offer
title
Yeats sees
Brace, Donald
Bradford, Gamaliel
Braithwaite, William Stanley
Branch, Anna Hempstead
Bricault, Dr. Charlemagne C.
Bridges, Robert
Briggs, Dean LeBaron R.
Briggs, Ellis O.
“Bright Star” (Keats)
Bristol, Herbert G.
“Broken Drought, The”
Bromwich, David
“Brook, The” (Tennyson)
Brooke, Rupert
Brower, Reuben A.
Brown, Harold, RF’s letters to
Browne, George H.
RF’s letters to
Brownell, Herbert G.
Browning, Robert
“Brown’s Descent”
Bryant, William Cullen
Buck, Pearl
Buckley, Christopher “Boss”
“Build Soil”
politics attacked
written
Bunyan, John
Burell, Carl
Burke, Edmund
Burnet, Dana
Burns, Robert
Burnshaw, Stanley
Bursley, Dean and Mrs. Joseph A.
Burton, Dr. Marion L.
Bynner, Witter
“Cabin in the Clearing, A”
Campbell, Gladys
Carlyle, Thomas
Carman, William Bliss
“Carpe Diem”
Case, Lorenzo
Catherwood, Mary Hartwell
Cathleen ni Houlihan (Yeats)
Catullus
Cavafy, Constantine P.
Century Magazine
Chaliapin, Boris
Challenge (Untermeyer)
Chandler, Mr. (farmer)
Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
Chase, John
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chesterton, G. K.
Chicago Evening Post
Chicago Poems (Sandburg)
Childs, Francis
“Choose Something Like a Star”
Chukovsky, Kornei
Churchill, George Bosworth
Ciardi, John
Cicero
“Circus Animals’ Desertion, The” (Yeats)
Clapp, Richard
Clare, John
Cleghorn, Sarah
Cleveland, Grover
Coffin, R. P. T., RF’s letters to
Cohn, Louis
Cohn, Marguerite
Colcord, Elihu (great-uncle)
Cole, Charles W.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Collected Poems
preface to version published in 1939
published in 1930
Pulitzer
reviewed
Collins, William
Colony, Horatio
Colum, Padraic
Complete Poems of Robert Frost 1949
Comus (Milton)
Conant, James Bryant
Cone, Harold (grandson)
Cone, Irma. See Frost, Irma
Cone, John “Jacky” (grandson)
Cone, John Paine
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, A (Twain)
Connolley, Mrs.
“Considerable Speck, A”
“Conversation as a Force in Life” (Elinor’s valedictory speech)
Cook, Reginald L.
Cooper, James Fenimore
Cournos, John
Cowden, Roy
“Cow in Apple Time, The”
Cowley, Malcolm
Cox, Hyde
Cox, James M.
Cox, Sidney
meets RF
portrait of RF
RF’s letters to
RF’s warning on mixing life and art
Craig, G. Amour
Cramer, Jeffrey
Creative Evolution (Bergson)
Critical Fable, A (Amy Lowell)
Cross, Wilber L.
RF’s letter to
Curran, Constantine P.
Current History
Curtiss, Harold
Cushing, Richard Cardinal
Daily Bread (Gibson)
Daily News (London)
Dakin, Arthur Hazard
Dana, Mrs. William Starr
Dante
Darwin, Charles
Davidson, Donald
Davies, W. H.
Davison, Edward
Davison, Natalie, Elinor’s letters to
Davison, Peter
Davison, Wilfred E.
Day-Lewis, C.
“Death of the Hired Man, The”
published
reviewed
W. H. Hudson reads
written
“Dedication”
Deerslayer, The (Cooper)
de la Mare, Walter
“Demiurge’s Laugh, The”
“Departmental”
published
written
Derry News
“Desert Places”
published
written
“Design”
early version, and argument from design
Meyers’s reading
“Despair”
de Valera, Eamon
DeVoto, Bernard
RF’s letters to
tensions over Kay
Dewey, John
Dickey, John Sloan
Dickinson, Emily
Dillon, Douglas
“Directive”
reviewed
written
“Discipline of the Classics and the Writing of English, The” (lecture)
Doctor Faustus (Marlowe)
“Does Wisdom Signify?” (lecture)
Dole, Nathan Haskell
Doneghy, Dagmar, “kidnapping of”
Doughty, Rev. John
Dowson, Ernest
“Draft Horse, The”
Drinkwater, John
“Drumlin Woodchuck, A”
published
written
Dulles, John Foster
