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1. Untermeyer, 250.

2. Notes to John Bartlett. UVL.

3. Frost to Wallace Stevens, July 28, 1935. DCL.

4. Letters of Wallace Stevens, selected and edited by Holly Stevens (London: Faber & Faber, 1966), 278.

5. Frost notebooks, 1935. DCL.

6. Letters between Frost and Otto Manthey-Zorn, edited by Sheehy, 397.

7. Elinor Frost to Natalie Davison, February 8, 1935. DCL.

8. Donald W. Craig, “Frost Delivers Lectures on Poetry,” Amherst Record (May 29, 1935), 2.

9. Anderson, 187.

10. Interview with Robert Penn Warren.

11. I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition, by Twelve Southerners (New York: Harper & Row, 1962), 29.

12. Ibid., 10.

13. Frost notebooks, 1935. DCL.

14. Interview with Victor Reichert.

15. SL, 425.

16. Cook notes. MCL.

17. Frost to Sidney Cox, March 29, 1936. DCL.

18. Interview with Hyde Cox, September 3, 1996.

19. Lawrance Thompson misdates the initial meeting between Frost and Morrison. It is corrected in Morrison’s own hand in the margins of her copy of Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph. I am grateful to Edward C. Lathem for pointing this out to me.

20. Interview with Louise Reichert, August 24, 1996.

21. Kathleen Morrison, Robert Frost: A Pictorial Chronicle (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974), 14.

22. Lawrence C. Dame, “1000 Hear Poet Give Views on Life in Harvard Lecture,” Boston Herald (March 19, 1936).

23. Hyde Cox interview.

24. Robert Lowell, Interviews and Memoirs, ed. Jeffrey Meyers (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988), 64.

25. Quoted by Paul Mariani, Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell (New York: Norton, 1994), 152.

26. Peter Davison, The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston, from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath, 1955–1960 (New York: Knopf, 1994), 274.

27. Newton Arvin, “A Minor Strain,” Partisan Review (June 1936), 27–28.

28. Horace Gregory, New Republic (June 24, 1936), 214; R. P. Blackmur, “The Instincts of a Bard,” Nation (June 24, 1936); Rolfe Humphries, “A Further Shrinking,” New Masses (August 11, 1936), 41–42.

29. Linda W. Wagner, ed., Robert Frost: The Critical Reception (New York: Burt Franklin, 1977), 137.

30. Elinor Frost to Edith Fobes, August 1936. DCL.

31. Elinor Frost to Richard Thornton, September 13, 1936. DCL.

32. SL, 421–32.

33. Frost to Theodore Morrison, October 2, 1937. DCL.

34. SL, 453–54.

35. Bernard De Voto, “The Critics and Robert Frost,” Saturday Review (January 1, 1938), 3–4.

36. Helen Muir, Frost in Florida: A Memoir (Miami: Valiant Press, 1995), 26. Muir is quoting the Stetson Reporter.