Identity area
Reference code
GB 891 BQ-BQ/7
Title
Correspondence from Edwin Arnold
Date(s)
- 12th Oct 1888 - 12th Aug 1899 (Creation)
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Sir Edwin Arnold was an English poet and journalist. He was born in Gravesend, Kent, and educated in Rochester and Oxford before becoming a schoolmaster in Birmingham. In 1856 he went to India as Principal of the Government Sanskrit College at Poona. He returned to England in 1861 and worked as a journalist for the Daily Telegraph. He was best known as a poet and specifically for interpreting Eastern philosophy and life in English verse. His chief work with this object is "The Light of Asia", or "The Great Renunciation", a poem of eight books in blank verse.
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
A series of four letters from Edwin Arnold to Bernard Quaritch, concerned with the obtaining and selling of books.
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System of arrangement
The letters were arranged chronologically.
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Language of material
- English