A literary character living in this city receives a telegram informing him that two black owls have 
A literary character living in this city receives a telegram informing him that two black owls have returned to Tankerton Hall, prompting him to kill himself. The creation of a book partly named for this city involved voluminous contributions from W.C. Minor, who was confined to an insane asylum at the time. The Barley Mow and the Bull Inn are among the stops on a journey to this city undertaken by George, Carl, J., and Montmorency the dog. This city "needs not June for beauty's heightening" according to (*) Matthew Arnold's "Thyrsis", which more famously calls it a "sweet city" with "dreaming spires". This setting of Zuleika Dobson and destination of the Three Men in a Boat is where Charles Ryder meets Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited. For 10 points, name this city whose namesake university's press produces a famous dictionary.
A literary character living in this city receives a telegram informing him that two black owls have returned to Tankerton Hall, prompting him to kill himself.
Oxford