Arnold, SIR EDWIN, K.C.I.E.

Arnold, SIR EDWIN, K.C.I.E. (1887), C.S.I. (1888), poet, born 10th June 1832, the son of a Sussex magistrate, and, after an education at Rochester and King's College, London, was elected a scholar of University College, Oxford. He won the Newdigate (1853) with a poem on Belshazzar's Feast, for a while was second master at Birmingham, and then became principal of the Government Sanskrit College at Poona. Returning to England in 1861, he joined the editorial staff of the Daily Telegraph. His numerous works include Poems (1853); The Indian Song of Songs (1875); The Light of Asia (1879); Indian Poetry (1881); Pearls of the Faith (1883); The Song Celestial (1885); Lotus and Jewel (1888); The Light of the World (1891); Seas and Lands (1891); Potiphar's Wife (1892); and Adzuma, or the Japanese Wife, a play (1893).