Alice Brown
“Mr. Frost has done truer work about New England than anybody—except Miss Wilkins.”
“The poet had the insight to trust the people with the book of the people and the people replied ‘Man, what is your name?’... He forsakes utterly the claptrap of pastoral song, classical or modern.... His is soil stuff, not mock bucolics.”
“The first poet for half a century to express New England life completely with a fresh, original and appealing way of his own.”
Brooklyn Daily Eagle:
“The more you read the more you are held, and when you return a few days later to look up some passage that has followed you about, the better you find the meat under the simple unpretentious form. The London Times caught that quality when it said: ‘Poetry burns up out of it, as when a faint wind breathes upon smouldering embers.’... That is precisely the effect....”
Epigraph
Generally, older or dialectual spellings were left unchanged.
A couple of obviously needed typographical changes were made.