As an American college student, I was afflicted with a very serious and incurable disease: Anglophilia. I had been reading CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien and TS Eliot. So when I turned up at Oxford in 1979 and realised my college was just up the road from The Eagle and Child, I was like a child in Disneyland. This was England at last! This was Oxford! Here were the haunts of my heroes! So began my 29-year...
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