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1. Frost to Sidney Cox, July 17, 1920. DCL.

2. Frost to John Haines, October 20, 1920. DCL.

3. See Thompson, The Years of Triumph, 136–50.

4. Raymond Holden, “Reminiscences of Robert Frost,” typescript in Dartmouth College Library. This is quoted by Jeffrey S. Cramer, Robert Frost Among His Poems: A Literary Companion to the Poet’s Own Biographical Contexts and Associations (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1996), 83. This book has been especially useful to me in my research, often pointing me in specific directions with regard to the biographical contexts of particular poems.

5. Pritchard, 171.

6. Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, and Derek Walcott, Homage to Robert Frost (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996), 62.

7. SL, 245.

8. Thompson, The Years of Triumph, 127.

9. Frost’s remarks as recorded by John T. Bartlett, “Notes from Conversations with Robert Frost,” June 27, 1932–April 8, 1934. UVL.

10. See G. R. Elliott, “The Neighborliness of Robert Frost,” Nation (December 6, 1919).

11. DCL.

12. Brodsky, Heaney, and Walcott, 87.

13. SL, 259.

14. Arthur Hazard Dakin, Paul Elmer More (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960), 192.

15. SL, 257.

16. SL, 261.

17. SL, 273.

18. SL, 269.

19. As told to Peter J. Stanlis. Letter to Jay Parini, February 15, 1998.

20. Mertins, 81–82.

21. Kearns, 63.

22. Lowell, 107.

23. Mertins, 81–82.