My Piece of England

Radcliffe in Oxford

My piece of England, Oxford the city of dreaming spires. The place of Jesus College built in 1571, the splendid Tower of the Five Orders, a niche for the statue of James I, the reigning monarch when the quadrangle was built. On spaciousness of fine gardens of Trinity College, and the towers of All Souls of pure Renaissance interior; the wide flat ceiling of Sheldonian Theatre where it is painted with a depiction of the Triumph of Religion, Arts and Science over Envy, Hate and Malice.



I mourn to thee and say—'Ah! loveliest friend!
That this the meed of all my toils might be,
To have a home, an English home, ….
The peacefull'st cot, the moon shall shine upon,

Samuel Taylor Coleridge





Learning program:
http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/staff/staff_dev/programme