Arnold, Sir Edwin
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Arnold, Sir Edwin (1832–1904), is best remembered for his
The Light of Asia, or
The Great Renunciation (1879), a poem of eight books in blank verse, in which, in his own words, he attempted ‘by the medium of an imaginary Buddhist votary to depict the life and character and indicate the philosophy of that noble hero and reformer, Prince Gautama of India, founder of Buddhism’.
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/10/1997; 502 words
; ...Gustave Courbet, painter, 1819; Sir Edwin Arnold, poet, 1832; Nikolaus August Otto...Robert Still, composer, 1910; Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan, playwright...Albert Delius, composer, 1934; Sir Robert Laird Borden, statesman...
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A Short History of Buddhism.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 1/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Buddhism -- for example, from the poet and orientalist, Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904), author of the pioneering work The Light...was well supported by the learning of the historian, Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975), who visited Japan to lecture...
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BHAGAVAD GITA: A NEW TRANSLATION.(Review)
Magazine article from: American Scholar; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...appreciated this irony when, as a law student in London, he savored the Gita in a translation by Sir Edwin Arnold, Victorian man of letters. Arnold's Bhagavadgita, still available in a Dover Thrift Edition, is a technical marvel: blank verse...
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All is Change.(All Is Change: The Two-thousand Year Journey of Buddhism to the West)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Middle Way; 2/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...more by enthusiasm than serious research: for example, Sir William Jones (1746-94) declared excitedly that...Western culture, with works such as The Light of Asia by Sir Edwin Arnold, Kim by Rudyard Kipling and Siddhartha by Herman Hesse...
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A WORLD OF WONDERS ; Time's memorials ++ Twenty million people have voted so far in a competition to name the modern successors to the seven ancient wonders. A team of experts is visiting the shortlist of 21, and the winners will be announced in July. Paul Bignell and Susannah Orchard report
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/20/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...The Taj Mahal is not a piece of architecture ... but a proud passion of an emperor's love in living stone" - Sir Edwin Arnold, English poet Sydney Opera House Where: Sydney, Australia Built between: 1951-1973 The Opera House, Australia...
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Raking up the century's best poetic leaves.(Features)(Books)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 4/13/2000; 700+ words
; ...gladly sacrifice" Milton's "Paradise Lost" and Wordsworth's "The Prelude" for no-longer-read classics like Sir Edwin Arnold's "The Light of Asia." But must we be forced to choose? Ideally, the truly inclusive democratic spirit would...
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A world of wonders Twenty million people have voted so far in a competition to name the modern successors to the seven ancient wonders. A team of experts is visiting the shortlist of 21, and the winners will be announced in July.
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph; 12/7/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...The Taj Mahal is not a piece of architecture ... but a proud passion of an emperor's love in living stone" - Sir Edwin Arnold, English poet Sydney Opera House Where: Sydney, Australia Built between: 1951-1973 The Opera House, Australia...
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Loving and Leaving the Good Life.
Magazine article from: Countryside & Small Stock Journal; 7/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...The Egyptian Book of the Dead, C. H. Bjerregaard, Maurice Maeterlinck, Marcus Aurelius, Gustave Fechner, Sir Edwin Arnold, Lucien Price, Mary Austin Patience Worth, Thomas Hardy, Trotsky, Shakespeare, and a couple of unnamed friends...
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Meeting notes
Newspaper article from: Daily Record, The Wooster, OH; 5/11/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Longer" by Dan Fogelberg and "Love and Marriage." From the Poetry Corner, Chuck Craig recited "Somewhere" by Sir Edwin Arnold and an original poem titled "Where Is the Sun?" Pipe organist Loretta Bower performed "Aria" by Paul Manz and...
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Following in the footsteps of Stanley; Tim Butcher of The Telegraph travels down the Congo River on the route of an earlier journalist.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Independent (South Africa); 6/3/2007; 700+ words
; ...spaces". When Stanley walked into the Fleet Street offices of The Telegraph for an audience with the then editor, Sir Edwin Arnold, he had one thing on his mind - backing for an expedition to chart the Congo. He won its financial support in the...
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Sir Edwin Arnold
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sir Edwin Arnold 1832-1904, English author. After serving as principal of the government college in Pune, India, he joined (1861) the staff...
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Arnold, Sir Edwin
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism
Arnold, Sir Edwin (1832–1904). British literary figure who composed the influential...and became very popular with Victorian audiences. Himself a Christian, Arnold saw much in common between Christianity and Buddhism . He became Principal...
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Henry Kingsley
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...popular among his peers. He once won a wager with friend Sir Edwin Arnold by running a mile, rowing a mile, and trotting a mile...overindulgence, including smoking and drinking. He and Arnold also formed a short-lived secret society, called the...
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Britain
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism
...Empire in Asia, and particularly to India and Sri Lanka . Sir William Jones (1746–94) founded the Asiatic...Buddhist literature. Interest in Buddhism was heightened by Sir Edwin Arnold's famous poem The Light of Asia , which inspired Westerners...
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Bhagavad-Gita
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Gita has been the subject of many commentaries and has been much translated. Its translators include Annie Besant, Sir Edwin Arnold, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and Mohandas Gandhi. Bibliography: See F. Edgerton, The Bhagavad Gita (1944...
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