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Copyright © 1999 by Jay Parini
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First published in hardcover in 1999 by Henry Holt and Company
First Owl Books Edition 2000
Frontispiece courtesy of the Jones Library and the Estate of Robert Frost
eISBN 9781466877801
First eBook edition: July 2014