Special thanks are due to the following for graciously supplying copies of letters used in this book.
Amherst College Library: letters to Richard Wilbur. Anthony Hecht Papers: Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: All letters to Dorothea, Melvyn, and Roger Hecht; copies and drafts of letters to numerous others. Brown University Library: letters to Austin Warren. Dartmouth College Library, Rauner Special Collections: letters to Philip Booth. Georgetown University Library: letters to Timothy J. Healy, S.J. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin: letters to Anne Sexton, William Arrowsmith, Elizabeth Hardwick. Houghton Library, Harvard University: letters to L. E. Sissman. I Tatti Library, Florence, Italy: letter to Laurance Roberts. The Library of Congress: letters to Mark Justin, Gary Metras, Judith Testa, Y. H. Zhao. Milne Special Collections, University of New Hampshire Library: letter to Donald Hall. New York Public Library: letters to Daniel Halpern, Howard Moss. Oxford University Library: letters to Jacqueline Simms Flursheim, Jon Stallworthy. Princeton University Library: letters to Allen Tate. Smith College Library: letter to Newton Arvin. Special Collections, Leeds University Library: letters to Philip Hoy. University of Chicago Library: letter to Karl Shapiro. University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware: letters to W. D. Snodgrass, Donald Justice, Bill Read. University of Rochester: Rare Books and Special Collections: letter to George H. Ford. Washington University Libraries: letters to James Merrill, Howard Nemerov, Mona Van Duyn, Jarvis Thurston. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: letters to Joseph Brodsky, Alfred Corn, J. D. McClatchy, Robert Fitzgerald.
Daniel Albright; Daniel Anderson; Lisa Baskin for the letters to Leonard Baskin; Harold Bloom; Michael Blumenthal; David Bromwich; Ashley Brown; Beatrice Cazac for the letters to Hayàt Mathews; Nicholas Christopher; Eleanor Cook; B. H. Fairchild; Alan Frost; Deborah Garrison, Hecht’s editor at Alfred A. Knopf; Dana Gioia; Frank Glazer; Kenneth Gross; Paul Gross; Cynthia Hadzi for the letters to Dimitri Hadzi; Donald Hall; David Havird; Daniel Hoffman; John Hollander; Richard Howard; Philip Hoy; Sunil Iyengar; Sydney Lea; David Lehman; Brad Leithauser; Valerie Lynn for the letter to Kenneth Lynn; William MacDonald; David Mason; Kate Maxwell for the letters to William Maxwell; J. D. McClatchy; Sandra McPherson; Edward Perlman; Jonathan Post; William Pritchard; Christopher Ricks; Hays H. Rockwell; Ira Sadoff; Mary Jo Salter; Sherod Santos; David Slavitt; David Sofield; Jennifer Snodgrass, Hecht’s editor at Harvard University Press; Kathy Starbuck for the letter to George Starbuck; Peter Steele, S.J.; Philip Stephens; U. T. Summers for the letters to Joseph Summers; Dorothea Tanning; Charles Tung; John Van Doren; Claire White; Ella Whitehead for the letter to John Whitehead; Norman Williams; and Garry Wills.