NOTES AND SOURCES
All quotations from Frost’s published poetry will be found in The Poetry of Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged, ed. Edward Connery Lathem (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1976).
1 ONCE BY THE PACIFIC
1 . This quotation, like many that follow, is from a tape in the Amherst College Library (ACL). Other tapes are from the Dartmouth College Library (DCL) and the Middlebury College Library (MCL). I am grateful to Joseph Matazzoni for supplying me with transcripts of most of the significant tapes of Robert Frost.
2 . Interview with Robert Penn Warren, July 7, 1988.
3 . Quoted by Robert Newdick in Newdick’s Season of Frost: An Interrupted Biography of Robert Frost, edited by William A. Sutton (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1976), 13.
4 . Selected Letters, Robert Frost, edited by Lawrance Thompson (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1964), 5. Hereafter SL.
7 . Louis Mertins, Robert Frost: Life and Talks-Walking (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965), 23.
9 . Interview with Victor Reichert, July 9, 1984.
10 . Letter to Jay Parini, February 5, 1998.
15 . The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963), 483. Hereafter cited as Untermeyer.
16 . Interview with Richard Eberhart, April 20, 1976. I interviewed Eberhart many times on the subject of Frost, beginning in 1975.
17 . Reginald L. Cook notes, MCL.
20 . Letter to Jay Parini, February 5, 1998.