BHAGAVAD GITA AS IT IS Illustrated

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BHAGAVAD GITA AS IT IS Illustrated (Bestseller Book by Edwin Arnold) All Time Most Demanding Books Classic Collection THE FAVOURITE and now venerable English poet, Edwin Arnold, showed his skill in smooth and lucid verse early in life. In 1852, when twenty years of age, he won the Newdigate Prize at Oxford for a poem, ‘The Feast of Belshazzar.’ Two years later, after graduation with honors, he was named second master of Edward the Sixth’s School at Birmingham; and, a few years subsequently, principal of the Government Sanskrit College at Poona, in India. In 1856, he published ‘Griselda, a Tragedy’; and after his return to London in 1861, translations from the Greek of Herodotus and the Sanskrit of the Indian classic ‘Hitopadeça,’ the latter under the name of ‘The Book of Good Counsels . BHAGAVAD GITA AS IT IS Illustrated (Bestseller Book by Edwin Arnold) All Time Most Demanding Books Classic Collection In Sir Edwin was chosen as President of the Birmingham and Midland Institute. ‘The Tenth Muse and Other Poems appeared in 1895, ‘The Queen’s Justice’ (1899) was dedicated to his Japanese wife. He died in March 1904.  2 ‘The Light of Asia,’ the most successful of his works, attracted instant attention on its appearance, as a novelty of rich Indian local color. BHAGAVAD GITA AS IT IS Illustrated (Bestseller Book by Edwin Arnold) All Time Most Demanding Books Classic Collection