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Edwin Arnold was born in Gravesend and educated at the King’s School, Rochester. While in India as principal of a government college from 1856-61, he taught himself oriental languages and became immersed in oriental culture. As a journalist from 1861 and editor from 1873-88 of ‘The Daily Telegraph’, he influenced the paper’s outlook with these interests. He also translated oriental texts and wrote his own poetry, of which the most famous is ‘the Light of Asia’ (1879), an epic poem about the founder of Buddhism. He had aspirations to be Poet Laureate after Tennyson.
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| Gravesend | He also translated oriental texts and wrote his own poetry, of which the most famous is ‘the Light of Asia’ (1879), an epic poem about the founder of Buddhism... |
