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letterhead 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-