Contents viii
ROBERT FROST (1874-1963) 959
Mending Wall 961
Home Burial 962
After Apple-picking 965
The Road Not Taken 966
An Old Man's Winter Night 966
Birches 967
The Oven Bird 968
The Witch of Coōs 969
For Once, Then, Something 972
Fire and Ice 973
Design 973
Nothing Gold Can Stay 974
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 974
Acquainted with the Night 974
West-Running Brook 975
Desert Places 977
Neither out Far Nor in Deep 978
Directive 978
In Winter in the Woods Alone 980
WILLA CATHER (1873-1947) 980
A Wagner Matinée 981
Neighbour Rosicky 986
ELLEN GLASGOW (1873-1945) 1007
The Difference 1008
GERTRUDE STEIN (1874-1946) 1023
FROM Three Lives
The Gentle Lena 1026
Susie Asado 1046
Picasso 1046
A Movie 1048
SHERWOOD ANDERSON (1876-1941) 1050
Death in the Woods 1051