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Sir Edwin Arnold NPG D45897

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Moritz Klinkicht, probably after Henry Van der Weyde

Best known as the author of The Light of Asia (1879), an epic poem that describes, through the mouth of an 'imaginary Buddhist votary', the life and teachings of the Buddha. After leaving Oxford University, Arnold was a schoolteacher in Birmingham before becoming principal of the British government college at Poona, 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... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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