MARK RICHARDSON THE COLLECTED PROSE OF ROBERT FROST. THEjBELKNAP PRESS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS u. Cambridge, Massachusetts , ; -;

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1 THE COLLECTED PROSE OF ROBERT FROST EDITED BY MARK RICHARDSON THEjBELKNAP PRESS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS u, ; -;! -' H 'i Cambridge, Massachusetts --.</;, '> ; ;'>" ' London, England

2 Contents Introduction Abbreviations ix xxxiii 1. Articles and Editorials from the Lawrence, Massachusetts, High School Bulletin ( ) 1 [Five Unsigned Editorials (September 1891)] 1 [Two Unsigned Editorials (October 1891)] 4 [Three Unsigned Editorials (November 1891)] 5 Petra and Its Surroundings (December 1891) 7. Physical Culture (December 1891) 9 The Charter Oak at Hartford (December 1891) 10 M. Bonner, Deceased (December 1891) 11 [Three Unsigned Editorials (December 1891)] 13 L.H.S.D.U. Unofficial Report (December 1891) 14 [Four Editorials (May 1892)] 16 A Monument to After-Thought Unveiled (June 1892) [The American About and Abroad (1895)] 3. [Children's Stories] Stories for The Eastern Poultryman and Farm-Poultry ( ) 35 Trap Nests (February 1903) 35 A Just Judge (March 1903) 38 A Start in the Fancy (July 1903) 42 The Question of a Feather (July 15,1903) 45 Old Welch Goes to the Show (August 15,1903) 49,- The Original and Only (September 1,1903) 53 Three Phases of the Poultry Industry (December 15,1903) 56 The Cockerel Buying Habit (February 1,1904) 62 "The Same Thing Over and Over" (March 1,1904) 64 The Universal Chicken Feed (April 1,1904) 66 Dalkins' Little Indulgence A Christmas Story., (December 15,1905) Three Articles Associated with Pinkerton Academy ( ) 74 [Article for the Pinkerton Academy Catalogue ( )] 74 [Drama at Pinkerton: A Series of Entertainments for the Benefit of the Academy Critic (1910)] 75 20

3 vi Contents [Description of English Curriculum, Pinkerton Academy Catalogue ( )] 77' 6. [Remarks on Form in Poetry (1919)] [Address before the Amherst Alumni Council (1919)] [Address in Memory of J. Warner Fobes (December 1,1920)] [Some Definitions by Robert Frost (1923)] [Preface to Memoirs of the Notorious Stephen Burroughs (1924)] The Poetry of Amy Lowell (1925) [Marion Leroy Burton and Education (1925)] [Introduction to The Arts Anthology: Dartmouth Verse 1925] [Poet One of the Truest (1928)] [Introduction to The Cow's in the Corn (1929)] [Preface to A Way Out (1929)] [Address at the Dedication of the Davison Memorial Library (1930)] Education by Poetry: A Meditative Monologue (1931) [Autobiographical Sketch (1933)] [Comment on "Birches" (1933)] ["Letter" to The Amherst Student (1935)] [Introduction to Kingjasper (1935)] [Contribution to Books We Like (1936)] [Introduction to Sarah Cleghorn's Threescore (1936)] [Contribution to The Stag at Ease (1938)] [Letter to the Editor of New Hampshire: A Guide to the Granite State (1938)], The Doctrine of Excursions (1939) 28. The Figure a Poem Makes (1939) [Remarks Accepting the Gold Medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1939)] The Last Refinement of Subject Matter: Vocal Imagination (1941?) [Preface to a Selection of His Poems (1942)] [Essay on the Divine Right of Kings (1943?)] [Contribution to 25th Anniversary Bread Loaf Booklet (1944)] The Four Beliefs (1944) [Preface to "The Death of the Hired Man" (1945)] The Constant Symbol (1946) Speaking of Loyalty (1948) 152 :38. [Preface to A Masque of Mercy (1947)] A Romantic Chasm (1948) 158 I2 9

4 Contents vii 40. [Unpublished Contribution to Understanding Poetry (1950)] [Letter to the American Booksellers'Association (1950)] [Contribution to The World's Best (1950)] [Poetry and School (1951)] [Unfinished Preface to an Unpublished Collection of Poems by Hervey Allen (1951)] [Contribution to The Tufts Weekly (1952)] The Hear-Say Ballad (1953) The Prerequisites (1954) [Message to the Poets of Japan (1954)] [Caveat Poeta (1955?)] [Perfect Day A Day of Prowess (1956)] [Message to the Poets of Korea (1957)] Maturity No Object (1957) [Preface to A Swinger of Birches, by Sidney Cox (First Version and Published Version, 1957)] [Contribution to Esquire's Symposium on "What Worries You Most about America Today?" (1958)] Merrill Moore (1958) [Statement of Robert Frost in the Case of the United States of America versus Ezra Pound (1958)] [Remarks on Being Appointed Consultant to the Library of Congress (1958?)] The Way There (1958?) [Unpublished Preface to an Expanded North of Boston (1958?)] [Letter to the Editor of Poetry (1958)] Dorothy Canfield (1958) [List of Five Favorite Books (1958)] [On Emerson (1959)] The Future of Man (1959) The Future of Man (Unpublished Version [1959]) [Talk and Reading, 25th Anniversary Dinner of the Academy of American Poets (1959)] [A Poet's Boyhood (i960)] [A New England Tribute (1961)] [Shakespeare Festival of Washington (1961)] [Tribute to Ernest Hemingway (1961)] [Comments on "Choose Something Like a Star" (1962)] [Tribute to William Faulkner (1962)] [Comments on "The Cold War Is Being Won" (1962)] 228

5 viii Contents 74. [Statement Concerning the Beginning of His Career (1963)] [Press Release on Being Awarded the Bollingen Prize (1963)] [Statement Written for the 53rd Annual Dinner of the Poetry Society of America (January 17,1963)] 231 Editorial Principles 235 Notes 243 Line-End Hyphenation 366 Acknowledgments 367 General Index 369 Index of Items by Title 377