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'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.
  • The summer of 1855, when next the Brownings were in London, was one of uncommon literary agitation. ...
    ... Above all other books, Maud was the poem of the year. When the Brownings reached London, the critical bombardment of 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. pp. 102–103. 
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