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1. Untermeyer, 199.

2. Ibid, 211–12.

3. The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore, general editor: Bonnie Costello (New York: Knopf, 1997), 300.

4. Ibid, 207–08.

5. SL, 376.

6. SL, 378.

7. Cook, Robert Frost: A Living Voice, 110.

8. It is interesting that Elinor abhorred the New Deal even more so than Frost, and was highly vocal about her feelings.

9. Cook notes. MCL.

10. Ibid.

11. Elinor Frost to Edith H. Fobes, September 1, 1931. DCL.

12. Elinor Frost to Edith H. Fobes, February 2, 1932. DCL.

13. SL, 384.

14. SL, 384–85.

15. W. H. Auden, The Dyer’s Hand (London: Faber & Faber, 1963), 342.

16. Letters between Frost and Manthey-Zorn, edited by Sheehy, 386.

17. SL, 394–95.

18. He said this to Robert Penn Warren, who printed the remark in his textbook Understanding Poetry, which he co-edited with Cleanth Brooks (1939).

19. Stanley Burnshaw, Robert Frost Himself (New York: George Braziller, 1986), 53.

20. SL, 462.

21. Malcolm Cowley, “The Case Against Mr. Frost,” New Republic (September 11, 1944), 312–13. Reprinted in Cox, Robert Frost: A Collection of Critical Essays, 36–45.

22. Frost in 1958 recording. ACL.

23. Untermeyer, 241.

24. SL, 409.