![]() ![]() ![]() Acton and Howard rapidly became the centre of an avant-garde circle known as the Hypocrites, whose artistic, social and homosexual values Waugh adopted enthusiastically he later wrote: “It was the stamping ground of half my Oxford life”. The arrival in Oxford in October 1922 of the sophisticated Etonians Harold Acton and Brian Howard changed Waugh’s Oxford life. The son of a publisher, Waugh born in 1903 was educated at Lancing College and Hertford College, Oxford. Waugh, a conservative Roman Catholic whose views were often trenchantly expressed, is widely recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the 20th century. His best-known works include his early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), his novel Brideshead Revisited (1945) and his trilogy of Second World War novels collectively known as Sword of Honour (1952–61). He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer. John Waugh (28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, travel books and biographies. ![]()
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