A Little Learning (book)
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Evelyn Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh , known as Evelyn Waugh, was an English writer of novels, travel books and biographies. He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer...
's unfinished auto-biography and memoir. It was published just two years before his death on Easter Sunday, 1966. It covers the period of the author's youth and education . The title is a well-known quotation from Pope's An Essay on Criticism
An Essay on Criticism
An Essay on Criticism is one of the first major poems written by the English writer Alexander Pope . It is written in a type of rhyming verse called heroic couplets....
, "A little learning is a dang'rous thing".
In this unfinished work Waugh passes this observation of post-war society in Oxford:
- "It seems that now, after the second war, my contemporaries [at Oxford] are regarded with a mixture of envy and reprobation, as libertines and wastrels."