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Edwin Arnold

Popular science fiction novel, first published around 1900.

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Edwin Arnold, Tristan Quillford

This illustrated collection gathers Edwin Arnold's major engagements with Buddhism, Hinduism, poetry, and drama, presenting a Victorian writer's sustained effort to render Asian religious imagination intelligible to English readers. Its centerpiece is Arnold's mellifluous, narrative verse—most famously the Buddhist life of the Buddha—joined by works shaped by Sanskritic lore, ethical reflection, and theatrical romance. The style is ornate, musical, and didactic, belonging to the nineteenth...

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Edwin Arnold, Tristan Quillford

Collected Poetry of Edwin Arnold (With Original Illustrations) gathers the verse of a Victorian writer who sought to translate Eastern religious, philosophical, and aesthetic traditions into the cadences of English poetry. Best known for the meditative narrative sweep of The Light of Asia, Arnold's work blends ornate diction, devotional seriousness, and pictorial richness, often reflecting the nineteenth-century fascination with India, Buddhism, and comparative religion. The original illus...

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Edwin Arnold, Tristan Quillford

The Collected Works of Edwin Arnold gathers the writings through which Victorian literature encountered Asia as both spiritual landscape and poetic subject. Centered on Arnold's celebrated Buddhist and Hindu compositions—above all the richly cadenced devotional narrative associated with The Light of Asia—the volume reveals a writer working between epic paraphrase, lyrical meditation, dramatic form, and moral romance. Its style is ornate, musical, and earnest, shaped by nineteenth-century O...

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Edwin Arnold, Tristan Quillford

Death, and Afterwards (Unabridged) is a compact yet resonant meditation on mortality, the soul's continuance, and the moral imagination that gathers around the moment of death. Written in Arnold's characteristically elevated, musical prose-poetic style, it belongs to the late Victorian literature of spiritual inquiry, where Christian inheritance, comparative religion, and new doubts about materialism met in urgent dialogue. Its unabridged form preserves the cadence and argumentative comple...

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Edwin Arnold, Darren Matthews

The Poetical Works of Edwin Arnold is a collection of poems that showcases Arnold's literary talent and profound spirituality. Written in a lyrical and picturesque style, the poems transport readers to exotic locations and explore themes of love, nature, and Eastern philosophy. Arnold's works are deeply influenced by his travels to the East, particularly India and Japan, and his unique perspective shines through in his evocative and sensory-rich writing. The book is a testament to Arnold's...

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Edwin Arnold, Tristan Quillford

The Song Celestial is Edwin Arnold's lyrical Victorian rendering of the Bhagavad-Gita, presenting the battlefield dialogue between the warrior Arjuna and Krishna, who reveals the duties of action, devotion, knowledge, and spiritual surrender. Cast in elevated English verse, the work transforms Sanskrit philosophical discourse into a meditative poem, shaped by nineteenth-century Orientalist scholarship yet animated by genuine reverence for Indian religious thought. Its literary context lies...

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Sir Edwin Arnold

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Edwin Arnold

According to Wikipedia: "Sir Edwin Arnold (10 June 1832 24 March 1904) was an English poet and journalist, who is most known for his work, The Light of Asia… . The literary task which he set before him was the interpretation in English verse of the life and philosophy of the East. His chief work with this object is The Light of Asia which was translated into various languages such as Hindi (tr. by Acharya Ram Chandra Shukla). It appeared in 1879 and was an immediate success, going through ...

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Edwin Arnold

This antiquarian volume contains 'The Light of Asia or the Great Renunciation', being an account of the life and teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and founder of Buddhism. This book is written in the style of a narrative poem, and describes the life and time of Prince Gautama Siddhartha, who, after attaining enlightenment, became The Buddha. It furnishes insights into his life, personality, and ideas - all in a series of verses, and was first published in London in July 1879. This text ...

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Edwin Arnold

According to Wikipedia: "Sir Edwin Arnold (10 June 1832 24 March 1904) was an English poet and journalist, who is most known for his work, The Light of Asia… . The literary task which he set before him was the interpretation in English verse of the life and philosophy of the East. His chief work with this object is The Light of Asia which was translated into various languages such as Hindi (tr. by Acharya Ram Chandra Shukla). It appeared in 1879 and was an immediate success, going through ...

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Edwin Arnold

The Bhagavad GitaTranslated by Edwin Arnold1885PrefaceChapter 1: Of the Distress of ArjunaChapter 2: Of DoctrinesChapter 3: Virtue in Work.Chapter 4: Of the Religion of KnowledgeChapter 5: Of Religion by Renouncing Fruit of WorksChapter 6: Of Religion of Self-RestraintChapter 7: Of Religion by DiscernmentChapter 8: Of Religion by Devotion to the One Supreme GodChapter 9: Of Religion by the Kingly Knowled...