AFTERWORD: FROST AND HIS BIOGRAPHERS

1. SL, 386.

2. Munson, 112–13.

3. Munson, 115.

4. Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, “Good Greek out of New England,” in Thornton, 149.

5. Sergeant, Robert Frost, 432–33.

6. Jean Gould, Robert Frost: The Aim Was Song (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1964).

7. Gould, ix.

8. Gould, 295.

9. Donald G. Sheehy, “The Poet as Neurotic: The Official Biography of Robert Frost,” American Literature (October 1986), 393–409.

10. Thompson, The Years of Triumph, xiv–xv.

11. Lawrance Thompson to Kathleen Morrison, September 2, 1945. DCL.

12. Pritchard, xvii–xviii.

13. Walsh, 9.

14. Burnshaw, 304.

15. Lesley Lee Francis, 2.

16. Donald G. Sheehy, “(Re)Figuring Love: Robert Frost in Crisis, 1938–1942,” New England Quarterly (June 1990), 179–231.

17. Helen Vendler, “Dark and Deep,” London Review of Books (July 4, 1996), 3.

18. Interview with Lesley Lee Francis.

19. Meyers, 217.

20. Meyers, 265.

21. Vendler, 5.

22. Frost notebook, undated. DCL. Included in Prose Jottings of Robert Frost: Selections from His Notebooks, eds. Edward Connery Lathem and Hyde Cox (Lunenburg, VT: Northeast Kingdom Publishers, 1982), 7.

23. CPPP, 721–22.