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Robert Frost A study in sensibility and good sense

Gorham Bert Munson

George, Henry, 26, 78 Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson, 65, 66 Goethe, 93, 114 _Golden Room, The_, 66 Grahame, Cunninghame, 60 _Grindstone, The_, 107, 108 Hall, Charley, 35, 88 _Hamlet_, 80 Harcourt, Alfred, 81 Hardy, Thomas, 72 Harvard, 34, 72 _Heretics_, 51 Holt, Henry and Co., 69, 81 Holt, Mrs., 66 _House-Keeper, The_, 80 Howe, Mark de Wolfe, 58 Hudson, W. H., 60 Hueffer, Ford Madox, 61 Hulme, T. E., 65 _Independent, The_, 30 International P.E.N. Club, 72 _Into My Own_, 28 James, Henry, 61 Jones, Llewellyn, 71, 89, 113 _Jumping Frog, The_, 53 Lagerlof, Selma, 72 _Land of Heart’s Desire, The_, 47 Lanier, Sidney, 30 Lankes, J. J., 70 note, 83 Lawrence, D. H., 61 Lewis, Wyndham, 61 _Liberator, The_, 83 Lindsay, Vachel, 110 Literary formula, 48 Longfellow, H. W., 84 Lowell, Amy, 69, 71, 110 Mabie, Hamilton W., 59 Mackenzie, Compton, 61 MacVeagh, Lincoln, 81 _Masses, The_, 83 Masters, Edgar Lee, 110 Mencken, H. L., 111 _Mending Wall_, 107 Merriam, Rev. Charles, 39 Michigan University, 74, 75 Mill, worker in, 32 Montpellier University, 73 Moody, Isabelle, 22 More, Paul Elmer, 81, 111, 112 Morrison, Henry, 48 Mosher, Thomas Bird, 82 _Mountain Interval_, 70 note, 73 _Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe_, 53 Munro, Harold, Poetry Book-Shop, 63 _My Butterfly_, 30 _Need for Being Versed in Country Things_, 103 _New Age, The_, 61 _New Era in American Poetry, A_, 71 _New Hampshire_, 70 note, 73, 99 New Hampshire State Normal School, 51 _New Republic, The_, 69, 91 _North of Boston_, 15, 65, 69, 70 Nutt, David, 62, 63, 69 _Old Kittery and Her Families_, 13 O’Leary, Dan, 79 _Once by the Pacific_, 91 O’Neill, Eugene, 96 Oppenheim, James, 72 Orage, A. R., 61 _Our America_, 71 Pebble incident, 48 Pepperell, Sir William, 17 Phi Beta Kappa, 72 Pinkerton Academy, 36, 39, 40-51, 80 Plato’s _Republic_, 52 _Playboy of the Western World_, 54 Poe, Edgar A., 29, 106 Poet Laureate, 72 _Poetry; A Magazine of Verse_, 60, 70 note _Poets of America_, Politics, 25 Pound, Ezra, 31, 59, 61, 63, 64, 80, 100, 101 Princeton, 81 Production of plays, 47, 54 Pulitzer Prize, 70 note Quarter, the lost, 78 Reporting, 33 Revolvers in San Francisco, 23 Robinson, Edward A., 111 Rolland, Romain, 72 Rousseau, J. J., 109 _Runaway, The_, 90 Sandburg, Carl, 81, 110 San Francisco, 22, 77, 78 Santayana, G., 34 _Saturday Review of Literature_, 99 Scaliger’s rhetorical question, 110 _Scribner’s_, 58 Sergeant, Elizabeth S., 77, 79, 82, 83 _Selected Poems_, 70 note, 73 _Sentinel_, 33 _Seven Arts, The_, 72, 94 Sex hygiene, 53 Shaw, G. B., 60 Shoe-making, 33 Sill, Edward R., 29 Silver, Ernest L., 42, 51 _Sohrab and Rustum_, 53 Sorbonne, 72 South, tour through, 33 Spingarn, 110 Stackpole, Everett S., 13, 15 Stevens, Wallace, 34, 84 Storer, Joseph, 16 Swedenborgianism, 26, 32 Swinburne, A. C., 89 Teaching, 33, 40-51, 55, 73, 74 _Tendencies in Modern American Poetry_, 71 Tennis, interest in, 56 Thomas, Edward, _Poems_, 67 _Times Literary Supplement_, 65 _Tom Brown’s School Days_, 29 _T. P.’s Weekly_, 61 _Trial by Existence, The_, 113 _Tuft of Flowers, The_, 80 Untermeyer, Louis, 71, 81 Valedictorian, 27, 28 Van Doren, Carl, 83 Vassar College, 81 Virgil, 34, 80 Ward, W. Hays, 30, 31 _Way Out, The_, 72, 94 Week-end party, 55, 56 Wells, H. G., 60 Wesleyan University, 75 White, Elinor, 27, 28, 32, 79 Williams, W. Carlos, 76 _Witch of Coos, The_, 70 note, 94 Wood, Clement, 71 _Youth’s Companion_, 58 FOOTNOTES [1] That of Elder Edmund Frost of Cambridge, Massachusetts. [2] _Frost Genealogy in Five Families_ by Norman Seaver Frost. [3] Elinor Bettina was born on June 20, 1907, and died on June 21. [4] See Appendix A. [5] Five printings of _North of Boston_ were called for in its first year, and ten more have been needed since. Its sale has been phenomenal for a book of poetry, and in 1926 it even led the author’s later books, though each of them has been steadily in demand ever since it appeared. _New Hampshire, A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes_, which was issued in 1923, comes next in popularity to _North of Boston_, requiring five large printings. This book won the Pulitzer Prize for that year, while one of the poems included in that volume, namely, _The Witch of Coos_, won the prize offered by _Poetry: A Magazine of Verse_ in 1922. _Mountain Interval_ has also required five printings, and the _Selected Poems_ are now in their fourth printing. In London _New Hampshire_ has appeared under the imprint of Grant Richards, Ltd., and the _Selected Poems_ under that of William Heinemann. In addition to their regular editions, a de luxe volume of _North of Boston_, illustrated in line by James Chapin, appeared in 1919, and a de luxe edition of _New Hampshire_, with woodcuts by J. J. Lankes, who also decorated the regular edition, came out in 1923. [6] Quoted from _Fire Under the Andes_ by Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant. [7] Quoted from _Fire Under the Andes_ by Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant. [8] Quoted from _Fire Under the Andes_ by Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant. [9] Quoted from _Fire Under the Andes_ by Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant. [10] Quoted from an interview in the New York _Times_, October 21, 1923. [11] Published in the _New Republic_, December 29, 1926. [12] Page 99 to 110 appeared originally as part of an essay on Frost published in _The Saturday Review of Literature_ for March 28, 1925. The text has now been slightly altered.