Arthur Waugh

Arthur Waugh (27 August 1866 – 26 June 1943) was an English journalist, literary critic, biographer, and publisher. He is noteworthy as the author of the 1931 autobiographical memoir One Man’s Road and as the father of the novelists Alec Waugh and Evelyn Waugh. Quotes An affection for animal life was one of Alfred, Lord Tennyson Alfred's earliest characteristics. One of the rooms on the second floor was set apart as his den, and here he would sit of an evening, pondering his verses. One night, as he leant from the window, he heard an owl hooting; and, with a faculty for imitation which was strong in him, he cried back to the bird. The poet's 'tu-whit, tu-whoo' was so natural that the owl flew to the wind, and into the room, where it was captured and kept for a long while as a pet. Ingenuity has traced to this story the origin of the later poem 'The Owl,' which catches with singular fidelity an echo of the bird's cry. Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Study of His Life and Work London W. Heinemann 1893 2nd https://books.google.com/books/about/Alfred_Lord_Tennyson.html?id=DHtg2fMrvhkC&pg=PA9 14–15 (1st edition, 1892) The summer of 1855, when next the Brownings were in London, was one of uncommon literary agitation. ...... Above all other books, Maud, and Other Poems Maud was the poem of the year. When the Brownings reached London, the critical bombardment of Alfred, Lord Tennyson Tennyson had begun; and all the various passions of mankind were being exercised in his condemnation and defence. Robert Browning Westminster Biographies Boston Small, Maynard & Company 1900 https://books.google.com/books?id=3G4qAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA102 102–103 To begin with, in the amusement nearest my heart, there was the theatre; and no one with a passion for the play could have arrived at Oxford in a more favourable hour. In the month of my first term the long struggle for the drama at Oxford was crowned with success; and the New Theatre Oxford New Theatre opened its doors to a performance of Twelfth Night by the Oxford University Dramatic Society ... One Man's Road: Being a Picture of Life in a Passing Generation London Chapman & Hall, Ltd 1931 https://books.google.com/books?id=5hlqAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=amusement+nearest 124 last part of quote External links The Times/1943/Obituary/Arthur Waugh Category:1866 births Category:1943 deaths Category:Journalists from England Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:University of Oxford alumni Category:Publishers from England Category:Literary critics Category:Biographers from England Category:Memoirists from England