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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
“Dust of Snow”
published
written
Dymock poets
Dynasts, The (Hardy)
Eastern Poultry Man
Eberhart, Richard
“Echo, The” (Van Dore)
“Education and the Classics” (Eliot)
“Education by Poetry” (lecture)
Edwards, Alfred C.
Edwards, Jonathan
Egoist
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Eisenhower, John
Eisenhower, Milton
Eliot, Mrs. T. S.
Eliot, T. S.
meets RF in second trip to England
surprise visit of 1946
Elliott, Alma
Elliott, George Roy
Emblems of Love (Abercrombie)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
influence of
and “Mowing”
Émile (Rousseau)
English Review
“Evening in a Sugar Orchard”
Fable for Critics, A (James Russell Lowell)
Faggen, Robert
Fanny’s First Play (Shaw)
Farjeon, Eleanor
Farm-Poultry
Farrar, John
“Fate” (Emerson)
Faulkner, William
“Fear, The”
“Fear of God, The”
“Fiat Nox” (“Let There Be Darkness”)
“Figure a Poem Makes, The” (preface)
“Figure in the Doorway, The”
published
written
Finley, John
“Fire and Ice”
published
written
Fire and Ice (Thompson)
“First Eclogue” (Virgil)
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
Fitts, Dudley
Fitzgerald, Michael
Fitzgerald, Raymond Tracy
Flecker, James Elroy
Fletcher, John Gould
Flint, Frank (F. S.)
meets RF and introduces Pound
on French poetry
and North of Boston
reviews Boy’s Will
RF letters to
Flood, James Clair
“Flower-Gathering”
Fobes, Edith
Elinor’s letters to
Fobes, Rev. Joseph Warner
Foerster, Norman
Ford, Ford Madox
“For Once, Then, Something”
published
written
Forster, E. M.
Foster, Charles
Francis, Dwight
Francis, Kay
Francis, Lesley Lee (granddaughter)
birth of
memoir
Francis, Robert
Frankfurter, Felix
Fraser, Marjorie Robin (granddaughter)
Fraser, Willard E.
Freeman
Freud, Sigmund
Frost, Carol (son)
birth of
in California
childhood
depression and suicide
farming
financial and health problems
given Stone Cottage
illness
Long Trail hike
lung problems
marriage to Lillian
mental problems
move to Florida
RF’s letters to
suicide obsession begins
travels to England
travels to Key West with family
Frost, Elinor Bettina (daughter)
Frost, Elinor White (wife)
as agent for readings and lectures
Amherst years
birth and death of Elinor Bettina
birth of Carol
birth of Elliott
birth of Irma
birth of Lesley
and Boy’s Will
burial of
children and family problems
death of
death of Elliott
death of Marjorie
on Derry farm
early marriage
in England
on England
farming at Derry after Elliott’s death
fights with RF
finances in Derry
and Franconia farm
friendship with Edith
heart problems and illness
homeschools children
housekeeping in England
as inspiration for poems
and Marjorie’s illness
and Michigan
miscarriages
moves to Derry farm bought by her father
nervous condition
and Plymouth household
return to America from England
RF’s dedication to and affection for
and RF’s Harvard studies
and RF’s illness
on RF’s reading
and RF’s writing in England
and “Silken Tent”
and South Shaftsbury house
and “Subverted Flower”
travels to California
travels to Europe
travels to Gainesville
travels to Key West
travels to New York
Twilight written and printed for
See also White, Elinor Miriam
Frost, Elliott (son)
birth of
childhood
illness and death of
Frost, Irma (daughter)
birth of
childhood
divorce
marriage
marriage troubles
mental problems and hospitalization
Frost, Isabelle “Belle” Moodie (mother)
and birth of Jeanie
death of
and death of Elliott
and death of Will and move to Massachusetts
illness and move to sanatorium
influence of
and Jeanie
marriage problems
meets and marries Will
moves family to Maine
private school plan with RF and Elinor
publishes Land of Crystal
reads to children
religion
RF leaves Dartmouth to teach for
and RF’s education
and RF’s fighting
and RF’s marriage
rumors of illegitimacy of
teaching
San Francisco outings with children
Frost, Jeanie Florence (sister)
birth of
childhood
drops out of high school
early jobs
education
mental problems
RF’s visit upon return from England
tension over mother
Frost, Lesley (daughter)
attends Wellesley College
birth of
childhood
and Elinor’s death
marital problems of
Meyers on
RF’s letters to
on swinging on birches
travels to England as child
travels to South America with father
Frost, Lillian LaBatt (Carol’s wife)
illness of
marries Carol
Frost, Marjorie (daughter)
birth of
childhood of
death of
in high school
illness
and Long Trail hike
marriage of
mental problems of
RF’s letters to
studies nursing
Frost, Prescott (grandson)
in Navy and illness
RF on
RF’s letters to
Frost, Robert
ambition
artistic
desire for audience, despite loner image
desire for recognition, and return to U.S.
desire to unite avocation and vocation
eagerness for audience and recognition, in England
“inflexible”
learns price of failure from father
and self-myth created after return from England
Amherst College
attempt to renew connection in 1940s
early teaching, under Meiklejohn
80th birthday celebration
first reading and invitation to teach
honorary degrees from
lectures, in 1930s
lectures and readings in old age
literature course in
residencies and work patterns in 1930s
resigns after death of Elinor
resigns after dispute with Meiklejohn
returns after dismissal of Meiklejohn
returns after Olds counters Michigan offer
returns in as 1948 Simpson Lecturer
Robert Frost Library announced
awards and honors
Academy of American Poets prize
American Academy of Arts and Letters, elected to
Bollingen Prize
Congressional Gold Medal
at Harvard as student
honorary degrees
honorary degrees from Oxford and Cambridge
Hood Prize in high school
Library of Congress exhibition and talk
Library of Congress poetry consultant
National Institute of Arts and Letters Gold Medal
National Poetry Festival address
Nobel Prize eludes
poet laureate of Vermont
Poetry Magazine prize
Pulitzers
U.S. Embassy in London exhibition
U.S. Senate toast
“barding around” (lectures and readings)
Agnes Scott College readings
on art of poetry at Amherst
becomes comfortable as speaker
after death of Elinor
epigrams in talks between poems
final as Ticknor fellow
final lecture at Dartmouth on “extravagance”
final reading at Ford Hall Forum
first reading in public by Merriam
first readings and interviews in Boston area
at Hebrew University
New School for Social Research lectures
of 1915–16
of 1920s
of 1930s
of 1940s
Norton lectures at Harvard
performance as embodiment of poems for
performance style attracts growing audience
personal charm of
at Rocky Mountain Writers’ Conference
at State Department
and style
Trilling on
as writer-in-residence in Indiana
biographies and critical studies of
first critical study by Thompson (Fire and Ice)
first wave, as classical humanist
memoir by granddaughter Lesley Lee Francis
by Meyers, as throwback to Thompson
Munson monograph on
Newdick chosen over Davison as biographer
publications and essays on, in 1915
Recognition of Robert Frost essays
second wave, and Thompson’s portrayal as monster
third wave, as correction of Thompson
Thompson named official biographer
Thompson turns against
birthday celebrations for
50th, at Hotel Brevoort in New York
75th
80th
85th
88th
birth of
books prepared and published
A Boy’s Will
Collected Poems
Collected Poems of 1939, with new preface
Complete Poems
A Further Range
In the Clearing
Masque of Mercy
Masque of Reason
Mountain Interval
New Hampshire
North of Boston
Selected Poems
Selected Poems, reissue
Steeple Bush
Twilight
West-Running Brook
A Witness Tree
botanizing
fills poetic universe
interest sparked by Burell
with Thomas, and “Road Not Taken”
See also nature
Bread Loaf and Middlebury College
after death of Elinor
first hired to teach
and Homer Noble farm
and honorary degree
sports at
suggests Writers Conference and attracts participants
teaching in
and tensions over Kay
childhood and family background
impact of
landscapes of San Francisco
Leavenworth Street home
literature
parents’ background
Scottish heritage
children and family life
as “bad” father
camping at Lake Willoughby
Carol born
Carol’s death by suicide
Carol’s farming
Carol’s marriage to Lillian
Carol’s psychological problems
children’s deaths, and masques
children’s dependency in adulthood
children’s illnesses
in Derry and farming
Elliott born
Elliott’s death
in England
in Francis memoir
grandmother’s death
and grandson Prescott
homeschools children
Irma’s mental problems
Marjorie born
Marjorie’s death
Marjorie’s marriage plans
Marjorie’s psychological problems
as monster, and gun scene with Elinor
relationships with children and grandchildren
reunion in San Antonio, Texas
in Sugar Hill
walks and talks with children
colleagues, poets and writers
aids writers in later years
Akhmatova meeting
Amy Lowell
Dymock group
Eliot
makes literary connections in Boston
Pound
rivalries with contemporaries
rivalry with Sandburg
Robert Lowell
Stevens meeting in Key West
Yeats meetings
See also friendships; and specific individuals
conversation
character of, in England and later
Haines on
late-night monologuing habit begun
style formed at Derry as bedrock of poetics
walks and talks with students at Pinkerton
with Yeats and A.E. in Ireland
critics and reviews
attacks on A Further Range
and A Boy’s Will
dark side seen by
and English publication
and North of Boston
tiff with Burton Rascoe
See also specific works
Dartmouth
attends college at
Baker Library collection
final lecture on “extravagance”
final Ticknor lecture
first lectures at
flight from, as student
honorary degree, 2nd
leaves teaching post, for Amherst in 1948
Ticknor Fellowship
death of
depressions
and creativity, “Draft Horse” on
after critical attacks
as dark side
after Elinor’s death
expressed in poem for Untermeyer
influence of, on poetry and life
in late 1920s
leaves Harvard during
and mental illness in family
and “momentary stays against confusion”
and mother’s unhappiness
in 1930s
public career keeps him from withdrawing
vs. public persona
and sister Jeanie’s confinement
Derry farm
bought
and children
after death of Elinor
inspires poems
leaves
life on
sold
early jobs
in Arlington Woolen Mill
in high school
as journalist
and poetry writing after Dartmouth
as schoolteacher
shoemaking in Salem
early teaching
at Methuen school to help mother
at Pinkerton
in Plymouth
quits to be poet
education
at Dartmouth
early
grandparents object to Harvard
Greek studies
at Harvard after hitting bottom as dropout
Latin studies
Lawrence High School
leaves Dartmouth
at mother’s school in Salem
reading in Derry
reading in youth
valedictorian with Elinor
in England
attends Poetry Bookshop opening and meets Flint, Hulme, Pound, and Yeats
in Beaconsfield cottage
biographers on
decides to return to America
fight with gamekeeper
first book created and published
in The Gallows
in Little Iddens cottage
Scottish vacation at Kingsbarns
and walking
farming
and chickens
Derry years, importance of
early interest in
and finances
and laziness
prescribed for depression on leaving Harvard
as source of imagery and metaphors
in Sugar Hill
as youth
See also Derry farm; New Hampshire
father
death of
difficult marriage
influence on
political ambitions of
and sports and illnesses of
finances
and aid to grown children in 1930s
Amherst college salary
annuity from grandfather
Bernheimer helps
and childhood
and college
and early marriage
Holden and Untermeyer help
Holt stipend
and houses
and independence
in late 1928
poetry sales
and return from England
and teaching at Pinkerton
Florida residences and trips
Gainesville
Key West
Miami
in 1937–38
in 1939
in 1940s
in 1960s
and Pencil Pines
freedom, concept of
in “Build Soil”
education as
in form
and limits
and restriction, and “Mending Walls”
friendships
with Bartlett
with Carl Burell
at Dartmouth as undergrad
and Derry years
with DeVoto
with Edward Thomas
encourages young couples
with Gibson
with Hervey Allen
with Hyde Cox
with Kennedy
in late years
at Pinkerton
with Lawrance Thompson
with Ridgely Torrence
with Sidney Cox
with Untermeyer
Harvard
Emerson Fellow post created
Fellow in American Civilization in 1941
leaves, for Dartmouth in 1943
Norton lectures and Phi Beta Kappa poet of 1936
as Phi Beta Kappa poet of 1916
seeks connection after Elinor’s death
studies at
takes entrance exams, as student
health problems
and Elinor’s loss of child
flu epidemic of 1918
heart
minor, interferes with work
prostate
robustness in old age
imagery and metaphors
brook or stream
early San Francisco
flora and fauna in
forest or wilderness
geology
ghostliness
and Lake Willoughby summer of 1909
leaves
and natural world
New England
Pacific coastline
and poems written in England
and reading of poem
RF on
rustic, found in farming
sexual, in “Birches”
individualism
Emerson’s concept of, clarified by James
independence of thought and finances
resolution and independence of
influences on
Bergson
Dickinson
Emerson
in England
Greek and Latin poetry
Hardy, on verse drama
intellectual
Santayana
William James
irony
in “Stopping by Woods”
and pastoral mode, in “New Hampshire”
manuscripts and collections
and Bernheimer
and Cohns and Lathem
marriage and relationship with Elinor
courtship
death of Elinor
devotion to Elinor
early marriage and financial problems
fights
and nervous collapse of 1925
rebuffed by Elinor, and trip to Dismal Swamp
reconciliation after Dismal Swamp trip
as rivals in high school
romance and pledge to marry
self-recrimination about
modernist literature
dislike of
and England stay
threat of, to reputation
and tiff with Rascoe
and Trilling speech at 85th birthday
mother
death of
difficult marriage of
influence on
loses job at Methuen
religious beliefs and mysticism
teaches for, at Methuen
nature
knowledge and curiosity about
in late poems
and Progress
as symbol of spirit
in “West-Running Brook”
See also botanizing; imagery and metaphors
New Hampshire
buys Franconia (Sugar Hill) farm
desires to live in after England
leaves Franconia, in 1920
Powder House Hill farm
Salem home, as youth
Salem teaching
sells Franconia farm to Holden
stays with Lynch family
summers in
New Hampshire State Normal School in Plymouth
quits
teaches at
personality
bad behavior after death of Elinor
cantankerousness, and resignation from Amherst
competitiveness
and DeVoto gossip
discomfort with organized education and college
dislike of homosexuality
fighting instinct continues after childhood
fight with boarder disgraces family
fight with gamekeeper at Gallows preserve
homesickness in England
“inflexible ambition” of
irritability
laziness, as necessary
monster image of
prejudices of
stubborn contrariness of, and philosophy
swings between self-confidence and doubt
“wicked” behavior, and Beach gossip
See also public persona; self
Pinkerton Academy
applies for job
Bingham replaced by Silver as principal
RF on
teaching style
withdraws from, in
poetry, aesthetics and theories
in “Ax-Helve”
and breaking down to remake vision
colloquial, regional, language, in New Hampshire
and common speech promoted by imagists
and conversation
correspondence about
definition of poetry as “work of knowing”
and Elinor’s influence
“Figure a Poem Makes” essay on
hears voices as source of
and imagists and Pound
and Latin verification
lecture on, in 1930
in “Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same”
in “New Hampshire”
Norton lectures on
notebooks of 1950s on
and painting
on pet peeves in preface to King Jasper
on poetics of speech at Derry
on poetry and creativity
poet-speaker, in A Boy’s Will
realism in, in “New Hampshire”
regionalism, in “New Hampshire”
seeks “poetry that talked”
“To Earthward” as pivotal poem
and traditionalism
on tripping reader into boundless
See also imagery and metaphors; irony; poetry, rhythms in; poetry, style and technique; religion; social and political themes; “sound of sense”; themes and ideas; and specific ideas and themes
poetry, as career
attempt to rediscover his way as poet, in 1930s
autobiographical work, and contradictory levels
builds portfolio for collection in early 1909
declares intention to write
early reading
fame grows in
first poems written and published in high school
first publishes poetry in Independent
first read in public by Merriam
first writes poetry
hates writing on commission for Phi Beta Kappa poem
presses self on English literary society
publishes “A Late Walk,” in 1909
receives advice, after publishing “My Butterfly”
talent recognized by Maurice Thompson
See also awards and honors; “barding around”; books prepared and published; colleagues, poets and writers; writing and writing process; and specific colleges and teaching positions
poetry, rhythms in
abstract line vs. “breaking” of words across it
early
“sprung” or “sound of sense” and “Mowing”
in “Two Look at Two”
See also “sound of sense”
poetry, style and technique
and clarity vs. spirituality
dramatic, and “Two Look at Two”
and growth by accretion, in books
and hoarding poems habit
and idea that poem must “ride on its own melting”
as major poet
narrative poems, in New Hampshire
and poet’s control of reading of poem
power of sentiment held in check
RF on
satirical verse
and sense of self
storytelling skills honed
and studies at Dartmouth
voice emerges during Derry years
See also poetry, aesthetics and theories; writing process
politics
agrarianism
attacked for conservatism in A Further Range
attack on utopianism
and common man in poems
conservatism of
on democracy
and disagreement with Conant at Harvard
dislike of liberals
dislike of progress
and friendships
and internationalism
and JFK
and Khrushchev meeting
of 1930s
and Pact of Paris
and World War I
and World War II
See also social and political themes
public persona
depicted in Gibson poem
influence of, on early biographers
interferes with inner poet
language, wit, and dress, at Plymouth
in later years
mode perfected
vs. private, gap widens, in late 1920s and 1930s
style of talking and teaching
Yankee voice, worn as mask
See also teaching and lecturing style
relationship with Kay Morrison
marriage proposal
meeting and early friendship
as secretary
tensions with DeVoto over
and death of Kay’s son
religion and spirituality
Bergson’s influence on
and Christianity vs. Darwin
and Christian socialism
and “Directive”
and Elinor’s death
high school editorials on
James’s influence, and revisions of “Design”
letter on
and malevolent or nonexistent God in poetry
mother’s influence on
mysticism, and childhood
Santayana’s influence on
and scientific interests
and scientific vs. religious or poetic truth
sermon before Sukkoth in synagogue
skepticism and mysticism of
and three forms of belief
and “West Running Brook”
San Francisco
landscape of, as child
leaves, on death of father
poems reflecting
revisits, in 1931
self
fierce refusal to relinquish control of
in “Fire and Ice”
and isolation, in A Boy’s Will
on self-discipline
selfhood, James’s concept of
self-mythification
self-portrait
self-protectiveness
self-reliance as concept
on style and
sister Jeanie
birth of
confined with psychiatric problems
illness while in high school
tensions with, over mother
social and political themes
in “Build Soil”
common man and agricultural life in
“Drumlin Woodchuck” and “Departmental”
and patriotism, and “The Gift Outright”
on politics in poetry
Pravda on proletarian nature of work
in “Provide, Provide”
in “Two Tramps in Mud Time
See also politics
“sound of sense” idea
Amherst college teaching on
in “Birches”
chief formulation of, in letter to Bartlett
and colloquial language
interviews on
lecture on
and “Mowing”
and North of Boston
and Norton lectures
and Thomas
sports
baseball
football
tennis
teaching and lecturing style
at Amherst in 1950s
at Dartmouth in later years
and discomfort with organized education
evolves at Pinkerton
freedom as goal of
at Plymouth
routine, in old age
as Ticknor fellow at Dartmouth
See also “barding around”; public persona
themes and ideas
anti-industrialism
argument from design
arrivals, departures and journeys
and atomic bomb
barriers, in language and nature
common man
concreteness, and Pound
conflict between college boy and old farmhand
contradiction, in “Road Not Taken”
and contradictions, of life and work
contraries, in “West-Running Brook”
creation, and breaking down and remaking
and “creative evolution,” of Bergson
and creativity and poetry
and deception and revelation in work and life
doubleness, in “Stopping by Woods”
dualism, between human mind and natural world
and environment
evolutionary theory
fierce refusal to relinquish control
heroic models, and James
heterocosmic analogue
husband-wife dialogues, of “West-Running Brook”
idealism, in early poetry
imagination, as theme of “After Apple-Picking”
indecision, expressed in poetry
isolation, in A Boy’s Will
and late poems on writing and depression
locality and universality of
and meaninglessness
parallelism between mental world and physical world
and rage
reflections on death in “Away”
resistance, in “West-Running Book”
universal and particular, in “New Hampshire”
universe as “extravagant”
walking in wilderness
wild nature
“wildness” notion
womanhood
See also imagery and metaphors; nature; poetry, aesthetics and theory; religion; social and political themes
travels
California and Colorado
Cuba
Dismal Swamp
England
Europe
Florida
Israel, Greece, and England
Key West
Long Trail hike
Midwest after death of Elinor
New York
South America
Soviet Union
University of Michigan
leaves when Amherst counters offer
permanent fellowship
visiting fellowships
Vermont residences
Homer Noble farm in Ripton
in Lake Willoughby, summer of 1909
Shingle Cottage farm bought in 1928
South Shaftsbury (Peleg Cole) farm
South Shaftsbury house given to Carol and Lillian
South Shaftsbury house sold
writing process
alone at Canobie Lake in 1893
compared to farming, in “Build Soil”
in Derry years
after Elinor’s death
and hoarding poems habit
during illness and depression of 1933
in Michigan as poet-in-residence
on origin of poems
on poetry and rivalry
productive period, after acceptance of Boy’s Will
productive period, after leaving Amherst College
public role interferes with
rejects advice on poetry and voice
revises “Design,” influenced by religious concepts of James
revises “West-Running Brook” in 1927
and unfinished poems
worry over lack of productivity
writes final poem in 1963
writes “For Once, Then, Something”
writes “Kitty Hawk” in 1953
writes late poems in 1950s
writes Masque of Mercy
writes “New Hampshire” and “Stopping by Woods”
writes “On the Heart’s Beginning to Cloud the Mind”
writes poems for A Further Range
writes poems for Kay
writes poems for Mountain Interval
writes poems of lasting value into old age
writes poetry at Sugar Hill
writes preface to Robinson’s King Jasper
writes “The Most of It” in response to Van Dore on nature
writing dwindles in late 1940s and early 1950s
writing poems becomes difficult in old age
See also poetry, career; specific works
Frost, William Prescott, Jr. (father)
childhood and background of
death of
and drinking
financial problems of
illness of
influence of
meets and marries Belle
newspaper career
pioneer mentality, wildness and bravura
political aspirations
relationship with RF
and RF’s fighting
and San Francisco
Frost, William Prescott, Sr. (grandfather)
buys Derry farm for RF and Elinor
death of, and trust fund
offers help to RF to write full-time
pays for RF’s Harvard education
personality of
Frost, Mrs. William Prescott, Sr. (grandmother)
Frost Family’s Adventure in Poetry, The (Francis)
Further Range, A
conservative politics of
poems written
published and reviewed
Pulitzer
Garcia Villa, José
Gardner, Ernest
Gardner, John Hayes
Gardner, Mary
Garfield, James A.
Garnett, Edward
Garrison, Theodosia
“Generations of Men, The”
Gentry, Anne Morrison
George, Henry
Georgian Poetry, 1911–1912 (Marsh)
“Ghost House”
Gibbon, Edward
Gibson, Wilfrid
friendship with
and gamekeeper at The Gallows
review of North of Boston
verse portrait of RF
“Gift Outright, The”
published
read at JFK inaugural
written
Gilbert, Edward, RF’s letters to
Gilder, Richard Watson
Ginsberg, Allen
Goethe
“Going for Water”
Golden, Harry
“Golden Room, The” (Gibson)
Golden Treasury (Palgrave)
Goodwin, Nathaniel
Gosling, Glenn
Gould, Charles H.
Gould, Jean
Graves, Robert
Gray, Thomas
Greene, Graham
Greene, Robert
Gregory, Horace
“Grindstone, The”
Guay, Napoleon
Guiney, Louise Imogen
“Gum-Gatherer, The”
Hagstrom, Jack W. C.
Haines, John
English neighbor on RF
RF’s letters to
Hall, Donald
Hall, Gertrude
Hall, John
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Hancock, Walker
Hancock, Winfield Scott
“Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length”
Harcourt, Alfred
“Hardship of Accounting, The”
Hardy, Thomas
Harper’s
Hart-Davis, Rupert
Harvey, Leona White (Elinor’s sister)
Harvey, Nathaniel
Have Come, Am Here (Garcia Villa)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hayes, John A.
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Heaney, Seamus
Hemingway, Ernest
Hendricks, Walter
Henley, W. E.
Herbert, George
Herder, J. G.
Heretics, The (Chesterton)
Herrick, Robert
Heywood, Thomas
Hicks, Granville
“Hillside Thaw, A”
“Hill Wife, The”
Hillyer, Robert
Hindle, Mrs.
History of the Conquest of Mexico (Prescott)
Hjort, Elmer
Hocking, William Ernest
Holden, Raymond
RF letters to
Holliday, Floyd
Holmes, John
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Holt, Henry, publishers
Holt, Mrs. Henry
“Home Burial”
responses to
written
Homer
Hopkins, (Dartmouth)
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
Horace
Horne, Henry
“Housekeeper, The”
Housman, A. E.
Hovey, Richard
Howe, Mark De Wolfe
Howells, William Dean
How Gertrude Teaches Her Children (Pestalozzi)
“How Hard It Is to Keep from Being King When It’s in You and in the Situation”
Howland, Harold E.
How to Know the Wild Flowers (Dana)
Hudson, W. H.
Hughes, Thomas
Hulme, T. E.
Humphries, Rolfe
“Hundred Collars, A”
Huxley, Thomas H.
“Hyla Brook”
published
written
“I Could Give All to Time”
I’ll Take My Stand (Agrarian manifesto)
imagism
“In a Vale”
Independent
Inferno (Dante)
Ingebretsen, Ed
“Ingenuities of Debt, The”
“In Hardwood Groves”
In the Clearing
assembled and published
success of
In the Net of the Stars (Flint)
“In Time of Cloudburst”
“Into My Own”
Into My Own (Walsh)
“Iris by Night”
“It Is Almost the Year Two Thousand”
published
written
James, Henry, Jr.
James, Henry, Sr.
James, William
Jarrell, Randall
Jewell, Ernest
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Johnson, Robert Underwood
Jones, Howard Mumford
Joyce, Hewette
Joyce, James
“Justice Denied in Massachusetts” (Millay)
Kasper, John
Kearns, Katherine
Keats, John
Kellogg, Frank B.
Kennedy, John F.
inaugural poem
RF’s letters to
Kerr, Orpheus C.
Khrushchev, Nikita
King, Stanley
King Jasper (Robinson), RF’s preface written
Kingsley, Robert
Kinnell, Galway
Kipling, Rudyard
Kittredge, George Lyman
“Kitty Hawk”
expresses purpose in life
spirituality of
written
Kyd, Thomas
LaBatt, Lillian. See Frost, Lillian
Ladd, Henry A.
Laing, Alexander
Land of Crystal (Belle Frost)
Land of Heart’s Desire, The (Yeats)
Laney, Emma May
Lanier, Sidney
Lankes, J. J.
“La Noche Triste” (first poem)
Larcom, Lucy
Last of the Mohicans, The (Cooper)
“Late Walk, A”
Lathem, Edward Connery
Lawrence Daily American
Lawrence Eagle-Tribune
Lawrence High School Bulletin
Lawrence Sentinel
Lawrence Weekly Journal
Lee, Robert E.
Lehmann, John
“Lesson for Today, The”
Lindsay, Vachel
“Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” (Wordsworth)
“Line-Storm Song, A”
Linnaeus
Lins do Rêgo, José
Lippmann, Walter
Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, The
Little, Clarence Cool
Littleton Courier
Livy
“Lockless Door, The”
Longfellow, Henry W.
Lord, George D.
Lord Weary’s Castle (Robert Lowell)
“Lost Faith, The”
“Lotos-Eaters, The” (Tennyson)
“Love and a Question”
Lowell, Amy
A Critical Fable
death of
RF meets
RF’s letters to
Lowell, James Russell
Lowell, Robert
Lucretius
“Lycidas” (Milton)
Lyly, John
Lynch, John
Lynch, Margaret
Elinor’s letter to
Lynen, John F.
Lyons, Clifford
Macbeth (Shakespeare)
McCord, David
MacDonald, George
MacKaye, Percy
MacLeish, Ada
MacLeish, Archibald
MacVeagh, Lincoln
Manthey-Zorn, Ethel
Manthey-Zorn, Otto
RF’s letters to
“Maple”
Margoshes, Adam
Marlowe, Christopher
Marquis, Don
Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The (Blake)
Marsh, Edward
Masefield, John
Masque of Mercy, A (play)
published
written
Masque of Reason, A (play)
published
written
Masses (magazine)
Masters, Edgar Lee
“Master Speed, The”
Mather, Maurice W.
“Meeting and Passing”
Meiklejohn, Alexander
Melcher, Frederic G.
Melville, Herman
Mencken, H. L.
“Mending Wall”
responses to
written
Meredith, William
Merriam, Charles
Mertins, Louis
RF’s letters to
Messer, Ben (uncle)
Messer, Sarah Frost (aunt)
Meyers, Jeffrey
“Middleness of the Road”
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare)
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Milton, John
Mirrielies, Edith
Mitchell, Miss Mary
Monro, Harold
Monroe, Charles
Monroe, Harriet
Monteiro, George
Montgomery, Marion
“Monument to After-Thought Unveiled A” (valedictory speech)
Moodie, Isabelle. See Frost, Isabelle
Moodie, Mary (grandmother)
Moodie, Thomas (grandfather)
Moody, Harriet
Moody, Mrs. William Vaughn
Moore, Marianne
Moore, Merrill
Moore, Thomas
More, Paul Elmer
Morrison, Bobby
Morrison, Henry
Morrison, Kathleen Johnston “Kay”
attends RF during final illness
becomes secretary
book dedicated to
and DeVoto
RF expresses gratitude to
RF’s letters to
RF’s relationship with
and “Silken Tent”
son dies
and Thompson
Morrison, Theodore “Ted”
on RF
RF’s letters to
Morse, Stearns
Morton, David
Mosher, Thomas Bird, RF’s letters to
Moss, Howard
“Most of It, The”
published
written
“Mountain, The”
Mountain Interval
assembled
poems written for
sales
title
“Mowing”
abstract vs. vernacular rhythm of
written
Munson, Gorham B.
“My Butterfly”
written
“My Lost Youth” (Longfellow)
“My November Guest”
“My Olympic Record Stride”
Nasby, Petroleum V.
Nash, Ray
Nation
National Institute of Arts and Letters
National Poetry Festival
“Nature and Evolution” (lecture)
Nature (Emerson)
“Need of Being Versed in Country Things The”
“Neighborliness of Robert Frost, The” (Elliott)
“Neither Out Far nor In Deep”
“Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same”
and gratitude to Kay
written
New Deal
Newdick, Robert S.
Newdick’s Season of Frost (Sutton)
Newell, Miss
New England Association of Teachers of English
New England Poetry Society
New England Quarterly
New Hampshire
poems written
published
Pulitzer
subtitle
“New Hampshire”
Munson on
written
New Masses
New Republic
Newton, Sarah
New Yorker
New York Herald Tribune
New York Times
New York Times Book Review
New York Tribune
“Night Light, The”
Noble, Mrs. Homer
“No Holy Wars for Them”
North of Boston
Amy Lowell reviews
assembled
Boston literary circles and
Derry years in
negative reviews in U.S.
and parents’ marriage
poems written
Pound reviews
publication and reviews
published in U.S.
RF on
Untermeyer reviews
“Nothing Gold Can Stay”
published
written
“November”
“Now Close the Windows”
Noyes, Alfred
Nutt, Albert Trubner
Nutt, Mrs. M. L., publisher
“Objection to Being Stepped On, The”
“October”
“Old Man’s Winter Night, An”
Olds, George Daniel
“Old Way to Be New, The” (lecture)
O’Leary, Dan
“Once by the Pacific”
written
“One Step Backward Taken”
“On Poesy or Art” (Coleridge)
“Onset, The”
“On the Heart’s Beginning to Cloud the Mind”
published
written
Oster, Judith
Our Place Among Infinities (Proctor)
“‘Out, Out—’”
written
Outlook
“Ovenbird, The”
Ovid
Owen, Wilfred
Oxford Book of American Verse
Palgrave, Francis Turner
“Pan with Us”
Paradise Lost (Milton)
Parker, Herbert
Parsons, Miss
Partisan Review
Pascal, Blaise
“Patch of Old Snow, A”
“Paul’s Wife”
“Pauper Witch of Grafton, The”
Paustovsky, Konstantin
Peabody, Charlie
Peabody, Josephine
“Peck of Gold, A”
Peele, George
Percy, Thomas
“Permanence of Robert Frost, The” (Van Doren)
Perry, Bliss
Pestalozzi, Johann
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Phoenix, John
Pinkerton Critic
Pisan Cantos (Pound)
“Planners, The”
Plato
Plautus
Playboy of the Western World (Synge)
Plotinus
Poe, Edgar Allan
Poetics (Aristotle)
Poetry
Poetry and Drama
“Poetry as Prowess (Feat of Words)” (lecture)
Poetry Review
Poetry Society of America
Poirier, Richard
Pope, Alexander
Porcupine, The (Robinson)
Porter, Jane
Pound, Ezra
arrest of
Bollingen Prize
and imagism
release from hospital engineered by RF
review of A Boy’s Will
review of North of Boston
RF meets
RF on
Powell, Arthur
Pragmatism (James)
Pravda
“Prayer in Spring, A”
Prelude, The (Wordsworth)
Prescott, William H.
Principles of Psychology (James)
Pritchard, William H.
biography of RF
Proctor, Richard A.
Progress and Poverty (George)
“Prophets Really Prophesy as Mystics/The Commentators Merely by Statistics, The”
“Provide, Provide”
Psychology: The Briefer Course (James)
Pursuit of Spring, The (Thomas)
“Putting in the Seed”
“Questioning Faces”
“Quest of the Orchis, The”
“Quest of the Purple-Fringed, The”
published under new title
Rachewiltz, Princess Mary de
Rankin, Blanche
Ransom, John Crowe
Rascoe, Burton
Recognition of Robert Frost (Thornton)
“Record Stride, A”
Reeve, F. D.
“(Re)Figuring Love: Robert Frost in Crisis” (Sheehy)
Reichert, Louise
Reichert, Victor
Reid, Alastair
Reliques (Percy)
“Reluctance”
“Renewal of Words, The” (lecture)
Representative Men (Emerson)
Republic (Plato)
“Revelation”
Reynolds, Art
Reynolds, Conger
Rich, Adrienne
Richards, Edward A.
Richards, I. A.
Richardson, C. F.
Richardson, Mark
“Riders”
Rigg, Edward
Ripostes (Pound)
“Rise of the Doctrine of Evolution, The” (lecture)
Rittenhouse, Jessie B.
Rivals, The (Sheridan)
“Road Not Taken, The”
first published
published in Mountain Interval
written
“Roadside Stand, A”
Robert Frost (Meyers)
Robert Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered (Pritchard)
Robert Frost: A Study in Sensibility and Good Sense (Munson)
Robert Frost Himself (Burnshaw)
Robert Frost: The Aim Was Song (Gould)
Robert Frost: The Trial by Existence (Sergeant)
Robinson, Edward Arlington
Collected Poems
RF’s preface on
Roethke, Theodore
Rogers, William P.
“Role of a Poet in a Democracy, The” (lecture)
Rolfe, William James
Romance of Dollard, The (Catherwood)
“Romantic Chasm, A” (essay)
Romantics
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Root, E. Merrill
“Rose Pogonias”
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Rowell, Wilbur
Royce, Josiah
Russell, George William (A.E.)
Russell, Lester
Sacco and Vanzetti case
Sandburg, Carl
San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin
San Francisco Daily Evening Post
San Francisco Daily Report
Santayana, George
Saturday Review of Literature
Schelling, F. W. J. von
Schmitt, Howard G.
Science of English Verse, The (Lanier)
Scott, Walter
Scott, W. T.
Scottish Chiefs, The (Porter)
Scribner’s Magazine
“Seaward” (Hovey)
“Secret Sits, The”
Sedgwick, Ellery
Selected Letters, Jarrell reviews
Selected Poems
1923
reissued
“Self-Reliance” (Emerson)
Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley
“Servant to Servants, A”
reviewed
written
Shakespeare
Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate
Shapiro, Karl
Shaw, George Bernard
RF on
Sheehy, Donald G.
Sheffield, Alfred
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Shepard, Odell
Sheridan, Richard
Shirley, Preston
Shorer, Mark
Sidney, Sir Philip
“Silken Tent, The”
Meyers on
published
written
Sill, Edward Rowland
Silver, Charles L.
Silver, Clinton Leroy
Silver, Ernest L.
RF’s letters to
and RF’s trip to England
Simonides
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (Edwards)
Sipprell, Clara E.
Skinner, B. F., letter to
Sloane, William
Smith, J. C.
Smollet, Tobias
Smythe, Daniel
Snow, Wilbert
Solomon, Effie
“Something for Hope”
“Song of the Wave”
“Song of Wandering Aengus, The” (Yeats)
“Sound of the Trees, The”
first published
published in Mountain Interval
Southern Agrarians
Spencer, Herbert
Spender, Stephen
Spenser, Edmund
Spoon River Anthology (Masters)
“Spring Pools”
published
written
Squire, J. C.
Stanlis, Peter J.
“Star in a Stoneboat, A”
“Stars”
“Star-Splitter, The”
Stauffer, Donald A.
Steeple Bush
assembled
published
reviewed
Stegner, Wallace
Steinbeck, John
Sterling, George
Stevens, Wallace
meeting in Key West
RF’s letters to
Stevenson, Adlai
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stonefolds (Gibson)
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
JFK quotes
published
RF on
written
“Storm Fear”
written
“Strong Are Saying Nothing, The”
“Subverted Flower, The”
published
written
“Sunday Morning” (Stevens)
Sutton, William A.
Swedenborg, Emanuel
Sweeney, Jack
Swift, Jonathan
Swinburne, Algernon C.
Swinger of Birches, A (Cox)
Synge, John M.
Tacitus
Taggard, Genevieve
Tales of a Grandfather (Scott)
Talks to Teachers on Psychology (James)
Tate, Allen
Taylor, Welford Dunaway
Tendencies in Modern American Poetry (Amy Lowell)
“Ten Mills”
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
Tennyson, Sir Charles
Testament of Beauty, The (Bridges)
Theocritus
Thomas, Dylan
Thomas, Edward
botanizing walks with RF, and “Road Not Taken”
death of
Eastaway pseudonym
Little Iddens period
meets RF
Thomas, Helen
on RF
RF’s letters to
Thomas, Dr. John Henry
Thomas, Mervyn
Thompson, James Maurice
Thompson, Lawrance
biography of RF
break with
friendship with
and Kay
named biographer
RF’s letters to
travels to Israel and Greece with RF
writes Fire and Ice
Thoreau, Henry D.
Thornton, Marianne
Thornton, Richard H.
Elinor’s letters to
Tilden, Samuel
Tilley, Morris P.
Time
Time’s Laughingstocks (Hardy)
Times Literary Supplement
“Time to Talk, A”
Tittmann, Harold
“To a Waterfowl” (Bryant)
“To a Young Wretch”
“To Earthward”
as pivotal poem
published
“To E.T.”
Tolstoy, Leo
Tom Brown’s School Days (Hughes)
Torrence, Ridgely
RF’s letters to
“To the Thawing Wind”
“Traces”
Tragic Sense of Life, The (Unamuno)
“Tree at My Window”
“Trespass”
“Trial by Existence, The”
concept
publication of
Trilling, Lionel
“Tuft of Flowers, The”
first read in public
included in Boy’s Will
written
Twain, Mark
Twilight (private volume)
written and printed for Elinor
“rented” by Bernheimer
sold by Bernheimer
“Two Look at Two”
“Two Tramps in Mud Time”
published
written
“Two Witches”
Typee (Melville)
Udall, Stewart L.
travels to Soviet Union with RF
Ulysses (Joyce)
Unamuno, Miguel de
Untermeyer, Jean
Untermeyer, Louis
and Bread Loaf
disagreements over WW II
final meeting before death of RF
as friend in old age
loan from
poem sent to
politics of, and friendship
and Pulitzers for RF
and Rascoe tiff
reviews North of Boston
RF meets
on RF’s early readings
on RF’s lecturing style
RF’s letters to
RF’s verse letter to
Vance, Thomas
Van Dore, Wade
Van Doren, Carl
Van Doren, Mark
“Vanishing Red, The”
“Vantage Point, The”
Vendler, Helen
Vidal, Gore
Vinokurov, Yevgeny
Virgil
Virginia Quarterly
“Vocal Imagination—the Merger of Form and Content” (lecture)
“Voice Ways”
Voltaire
Voyage of the Beagle, The (Darwin)
Voznesensky, Andrei
“Waiting”
Walden (Thoreau)
Waller, Edmund
Walsh, John Evangelist
Ward, Artemus
Ward, Susan Hayes
correspondence with
Ward, William Hayes
Warren, Earl
Warren, Robert Penn
on RF
Washington, George
Washington Post
Waste Land, The (Eliot)
Watts, Harold H.
“Well-way and be it so”
Wessex Poems (Hardy)
“West-Running Brook”
central metaphor of
published
and religion
revised
West-Running Brook
published
reviews
written and assembled
Weygandt, Cornelius
Wheelwright, John Brooks
Whicher, George
Whimsies (magazine)
White, Ada (Elinor’s sister)
White, Elinor Miriam
argument and reconciliation with RF
attends St. Lawrence college during courtship
early courtship with RF
early illness
marries RF
meets RF in high school
RF’s letters to
shares valedictorian honors with RF
See also Frost, Elinor White
White, Mr. (Elinor’s father)
White, Mrs. (Elinor’s mother)
“White-Tailed Hornet, The”
Whittier, John Greenleaf
Wilbur, Richard
Wilder, Thornton
“Wild Grapes”
published
Will to Believe, The (James)
Wilson, Daniel
Wilson, T. J.
Wilson, Woodrow
“Wind and the Rain, The”
Winnick, R. H.
“Winter Eden, A”
“Witch of Coös, The”
Poetry Magazine prize
published
Witness Tree, A
assembled
published
Pulitzer
reveals lyric Frost
reviewed
Wolcott, Rev. William E.
Wood, George
“Wood-Pile, The”
Wordsworth, William
World War I
and Amherst years
and decision to leave England
and Thomas enlistment and death
World War II
Worthen, Thomas W. D.
Wyeth, Andrew
Yale Review
Yeats, W. B.
and A Boy’s Will
influence of
meetings with
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny
Yost, “Hurry-Up”
Young, Edward
Young, Stark
Youth’s Companion
Zitska, Madame