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608:Robert Frost: The Later Years, 1938–1963
260:"We Vainly Wrestle with the Blind Belief"
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185:"The Objection to Being Stepped On"
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257:"On Being Chosen Poet of Vermont"
172:Ever Feel This Way in the Least?"
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536:"Robert Frost Adds Poet's Touch"
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251:"Four-Room Shack Aspiring High"
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266:"In Winter in the Woods Alone"
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205:"Lines Written in Dejection
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134:"A Concept Self-Conceived"
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723:Acquainted with the Night
635:Robert Frost: A Biography
179:"The Bad Island - Easter"
125:"Accidentally on Purpose"
92:"A Cabin in the Clearing"
633:Meyers, Jeffrey (1996).
98:"America Is Hard to See"
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83:"But God's Own Descent"
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245:"In a Glass of Cider"
128:"A Never Naught Song"
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652:Parini, Jay (1999).
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373:New York Times 1961
182:"Our Doom to Bloom"
165:"Does No One at All
162:"Questioning Faces"
54:Invited to recite "
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964:Robert Frost Medal
922:A Masque of Reason
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153:"The Draft Horse"
137:"Forgive, O Lord"
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358:JFK Library
248:"From Iron"
66:Publication
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814:A Question
427:Booth 1962
412:Frost 1962
337:References
242:"A Reflex"
239:"Quandary"
970:Frostiana
800:Out, Out—
597:April 30,
548:April 29,
538:. Books.
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463:. Books.
342:Citations
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131:"Version"
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231:QUANDARY
150:"Auspex"
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89:"Away!"
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