Newberry Library - Somers, Jeanette, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1943

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Title Somers, Jeanette, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1943

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date 1943

Language English

Subjects New Left

Format Correspondence

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JEANNETTE ST. L. SOMERS
11209 Vernon Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
and because I know now that she introduced us to the very best. I'll never forget her reading
of Ben Jonson's "Ode For Hesperus" and Shelley's "West Wind." later on, in another class
in American Lit. she read us Lanier's "Stirrup-Cup" and "The Marshes of Glynn," and I guess
that just about that time my taste in poetry jelled, because I have never been particularly
enthusiastic about anything I have read since. I keep going back to Shakespeare and the
Elizabethans and Shelley and Keats and I love Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach." (I lived
in Berkeley, California for many years and at night when I looked out over the Bay and the
lights of San Francisco, it always came to my mind.) Once in the Berkeley Library I found
an anthology of Irish poetry that I later tried to buy and found was out of print. Someday
I hope to pick it up in a second-

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 29 Folder 1464

BibID 992006198805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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