Up at Oxford (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ved Mehta
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1955-1959
- Setting: London and Oxford, England
- Principal Characters: Ved Mehta, A. B. Rodger, Dom Moraes, Alasdair Clayre, Richard Snedden, Jasper Griffin, William
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: History, India or East Indian people, Aristocracy or aristocrats, Colleges or universities, Greek or Roman times, Eccentrics or eccentricities, Tutors or tutoring
- Locales: London, England, Oxford, England
In “Thyrsis,” an elegy for Arthur Hugh Clough, Matthew Arnold called Oxford “that sweet city with her dreaming spires.” Arnold and Clough had been close friends as undergraduates at Balliol, one of the three oldest of the University of Oxford’s colleges. (Merton and University College, along with Balliol, claim the distinction of being the oldest. All date from the thirteenth century.) For Ved Mehta, too, Oxford is that sweet city. As a Punjabi growing up in the last days of the British Raj, Mebta regarded the city and university as equivalent to “the Mecca of the Muslims,...
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