The New England Frosts -- Rebel sons and punitive fathers -- Strong man's food and Swedenborgian mysticism -- A boy's will is the wind's will -- Reluctant Yankees -- Monuments to after-thought -- Precipitate in love -- Adventures in the great dismal swamp -- From riffraff to Harvard -- Deaths of a son and a hired man -- Indoor and outdoor schooling -- Hen man in the academy -- To the land of the golden treasury -- The lively gallows -- Victory at home -- Amherst interval -- Sense and sensibility -- A home that never was on land or sea -- Something beyond conflict -- Delivering battle -- Weddings, divorces, and funerals -- A survivalist's further range -- Elinor's final ordeal -- Inferno to vita nuova -- A Biblical Job by a witness tree -- Mercy for the damned -- Mr. Frost goes to Washington -- A brief shining moment with the Kennedys -- Last act on the global stage