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1. Frost to Sidney Cox, March 7, 1945. DCL.

2. Mark Shorer, “A Masque of Reason,” Atlantic Monthly (March 1945), 133, 195.

3. “New England Questions,” Time (May 7, 1945), 100.

4. Conrad Aiken, “Whole Meaning to Doodle,” New Republic (April 16, 1945), 514.

5. Lawrance Thompson, “Robert Frost Rediscovers Job,” New York Times Book Review (March 25, 1945), 3.

6. Letter to Jay Parini, February 18, 1998.

7. Quoted in Thompson and Winnick, The Later Years, 133.

8. Interview with John Sloan Dickey.

9. Interview with Philip Booth, October 19, 1996.

10. George W. Nitchie, Human Values in the Poetry of Robert Frost (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1960), 146–49.

11. Kearns, 205.

12. Poirier, 100.

13. Interview with Reginald L. Cook.

14. Walter Hancock, A Sculptor’s Fortunes (Gloucester: Cape Ann Historical Association, 1997), 200–01.

15. See M. H. Abrams, Natural Supernaturalism (London: Oxford University Press, 1971), 453–54.

16. Quoted in Partisan Review: The Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, edited by William Phillips (New York: Stein and Day, 1985), 26. I am grateful to George Monteiro for bringing this quotation to my attention.

17. Interview with Louise Reichert.

18. Randall Jarrell, “Tenderness and Passive Sadness,” New York Times Book Review (June 1, 1947), 4.

19. Gladys Campbell, “A World Torn Loose Went by Me,” Poetry (December 1947), 145.

20. Frost included a draft of this poem in a letter to John W. Haines of September 23, 1928—as Louis Mertins notes, 178, quoting a letter from Haines to this effect. Thus Thompson and Winnick are way off base when they date the poem to the mid-forties; see The Later Years, 411.

21. Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference reading, 1959. Tape in ACL.

22. Cook, Robert Frost: A Living Voice, 183.

23. Robert Frost, “Remarks on the Occasion of the Tagore Centenary,” Poetry (November 1961), 118.

24. Time (June 16, 1947), 102.

25. Leonard Bacon, Saturday Review of Literature (May 31, 1947), 15.

26. Donald A. Stauffer, “The New Lyrics of Robert Frost,” Atlantic Monthly (October 1947), 115.