Look how beautiful this cover is! I can't get over how gorgeous the Radcliffe Camera is, which is why I decided to place it front and center on the cover of my new book - Oxford Literarium: Oxford Writers in Time and Place. Available now on Amazon.
The Radcliffe Camera is part of the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford. It is one of the most beautiful spaces in which to read, work, and write. It houses the History Faculty Library. It plays an important role in the lives of the writers I visit with through the book for they would have used the Bodleian Library in different ways along with their college library, and it played a key role in my own research there at the Bodleian. I spent probably 40-50% of my library time there at the Radcliffe Camera. I'd research books to find, treasure hunt them (usually held down underground in the Gladstone Link stacks), then I'd bring them up to the upper Rad Cam to read. The other ~50% of my library time was mostly split in the Old Bodleian, the Duke Humfrey's Library, and the Weston Library Manuscripts Reading Room.
If you are interested in history, authors (like C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Gerard Manley Hopkins, T.S. Eliot, Dorothy L. Sayers), Oxford, libraries, learning, poetry, connecting ideas across time, then you'll find this book interesting. As I researched connections these authors had I found more, and it led me to more trails to follow in a purely delightful path of discovery. I take you along the journey through this book, and visit with these authors in Oxford specifically to see how it impacted them. This book was a joy to research and write. I hope you'll find it interesting.
I hope you will pick up a copy today!
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