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Recent Poetry
November 6, 1879 issue

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This article focuses on the poem "The Light of Asia," by Edwin Arnold. Arnold's poem is in many ways the most important that has been published in English for some time. In both theme and treatment it is as ambitious as it is possible to be without pretentiousness; it is interesting enough to secure the popular favor which will miss its finer points, and as an intellectual, performance its merit is unmistakable enough to secure the instant recognition of reflective criticism. It has, it may be said, a prodigious advantage in its theme. But the disadvantages of the theme are not perhaps less real, although they may be less obvious.

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LIGHT of Asia (Poem); ARNOLD, Edwin; ENGLISH poetry; BUDDHISM; INTELLECTUALS; LITERATURE
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