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1. Quoted by Peter J. Stanlis in a letter to Jay Parini, February 15, 1998.

2. Frost to John T. Bartlett, December 11, 1925. UVL.

3. “‘To Otto as of Old’: The Letters of Robert Frost and Otto Manthey-Zorn, Part 1,” ed. Donald G. Sheehy, New England Quarterly (September 1994), 372.

4. SL, 325.

5. SL, 323.

6. Irving Babbitt, The New Laokoön (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910), 3.

7. George F. Bagby, Frost and the Book of Nature (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993), 59.

8. S. T. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, ed. George Watson (London: J. M. Dent, 1956), 173–74.

9. M. H. Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1953), 283.

10. John Hurd, Jr., “Poets and Writers Flock to Bowdoin for the Round Table of Literature,” Boston Globe (May 10, 1925), 18.

11. Cook, Robert Frost: A Living Voice, 125.

12. SL, 328.

13. Elinor Frost to Edith Fobes, July 20, 1926. DCL.

14. SL, 333.

15. Albert J. Robbins, An Interlude with Robert Frost: Being a Brief Correspondence with the Poet and Recollections (Bloomington: The Private Press of Frederic Brewer, 1982), 5.

16. Faggen, 291.

17. Pritchard, 188.

18. Brower, 189.

19. Thompson, The Years of Triumph, 85.

20. Interview with Jack W. C. Hagstrom, November 4, 1997.

21. Charles W. Cole, Massachusetts Review (Winter 1963), 239.

22. Elinor Frost to Edith Fobes, February 22, 1927. DCL.

23. Interview with Victor Reichert.

24. Peter J. Stanlis mentioned this in a letter to Jay Parini, February 15, 1998.

25. Harold H. Watts, “Robert Frost and the Interrupted Dialogue,” American Literature (March 1950), 71.

26. Welford Dunaway Taylor, Robert Frost and J. J. Lankes: Riders on Pegasus (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Library, 1996), 1.

27. Gorham B. Munson, “Robert Frost,” Saturday Review of Literature (March 28, 1925), 625.

28. SL, 346.

29. Interview with Peter J. Stanlis, May 30, 1997.

30. Interview with Reginald L. Cook.