While at this place, one poet befriended the naturalist James Lind and later fictionalized him as Zonaras in the poem Prince Athanase. This place caused Percy Shelley’s soul to “[take] fire” and “outsoar the sunward-soaring bird,” per an Algernon Swinburne ode titled for it. Samuel Johnson criticized lines from a poem about this place describing “gales” that are “redolent of joy and youth.” That poem titled for this place asks, “What idle progeny succeed / To chase (15[1])the (*) rolling circle’s speed, / Or urge the flying ball?” The statement “Thought would destroy their paradise” is from an ode about this place written after the death of Richard West. A poem titled for this place begins by describing its “distant spires” and “antique tow’rs.” For 10 points, the saying “where ignorance is bliss, / ‘Tis folly to be wise” comes from a Thomas Gray “Ode on a Distant Prospect of” what school? ■END■