The Light of Asia - Arnold, Edwin
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Sir Edwin Arnold, (born June 10, 1832, Gravesend, Kent, Eng.—died March 24, 1904, London), poet and journalist, best known as the author of The Light of Asia (1879), an epic poem in an elaborately Tennysonian blank verse that describes, through the mouth of an "imaginary Buddhist votary," the life and teachings of the Buddha. Pearls of the Faith (1883), on Islam, and The Light of the World (1891), on Christianity, were less successful. After leaving the University of Oxford, Arnold was a schoolteacher in Birmingham before becoming principal of the British government college at Poona (Pune),…mehr

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Sir Edwin Arnold, (born June 10, 1832, Gravesend, Kent, Eng.—died March 24, 1904, London), poet and journalist, best known as the author of The Light of Asia (1879), an epic poem in an elaborately Tennysonian blank verse that describes, through the mouth of an "imaginary Buddhist votary," the life and teachings of the Buddha. Pearls of the Faith (1883), on Islam, and The Light of the World (1891), on Christianity, were less successful. After leaving the University of Oxford, Arnold was a schoolteacher in Birmingham before becoming principal of the British government college at Poona (Pune), India, in 1856. He returned to England in 1861 to join the staff of the Daily Telegraph, where he was chief editor from 1873 to 1889. He published several volumes of shorter poems as well as translations of Indian verse and a good deal of prose travel writing. The essays collected in Japonica (1892) were an important contribution to the late 19th-century "cult of Japan" in Britain, as were his adaptations of Japanese poetry in The Tenth Muse (1895) and his Japanese play Adzuma (1893). He was knighted in 1888. (britannica.com)
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Sir Edwin Arnold was an English poet and journalist who lived from June 10, 1832, to March 24, 1904. His best-known work is The Light of Asia. Arnold was born in Gravesend, Kent. He was the second son of Robert Coles Arnold, who worked as a judge in Sussex. He was raised on a farm in Southchurch, Essex, called Southchurch Wick. He went to King's School in Rochester, King's College in London, and University College in Oxford, where he won the Newdigate prize for poetry about "The Feast of Belshazzar" in 1852. Arnold also came up with the idea of a big line that went across the whole of Africa. In 1874, he was the first person to use the phrase "Cape to Cairo railway," which was later made famous by Cecil Rhodes. But he was best known to people of his time for being a poet. The writing task he set for himself was to explain the life and philosophy of the East in English verse. His most important work towards this goal is a poem called "The Light of Asia" or "The Great Renunciation." It has eight books and is written in blank verse. It has been translated into many languages, including Hindi.