The Song Celestial or Bhagavad- Gita (From the Mahabharata)

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 schooltea...See More