Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...Arnold and Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall. Arnold was employed in India in educational work from 1856 to 1861, and then returned to England. As a poet, journalist and man of letters, he belongs mainly to the history of English literature proper, and he wrote all his best work long after his departure from India; but his whole subsequent life, and almost the whole of his subsequent work, bore predominant impress of his Indian experience. As an unwearied and tasteful translator of Indian poetry into English verse, Arnold is unrivalled and possesses an assured place in English literature; while, as regards his most original work, The Light of Asia, India may justly claim to have inspired some of its noblest passages, though, perhaps, she is responsible for its exotic and sometimes cloying sweetness. Sir Alfred Lyall, whose Asiatic Studies and Rise and Expansion of the British Dominion in India proved him to be one of the foremost Anglo-Indian thinkers and writers, combined thought and form most happily in the reflections on Indian politics and religion which he put into the form of Verses written in India. Never since Leyden's Ode to an Indian Gold Coin had the exile's longing been expressed so well as in The Land of Regrets, while Siva: or Mors Janua Vitae is one of the finest products of Anglo-Indian literature. Among the many writers of humorous verse--a species of literature always popular in India--Walter Yeldham, who wrote under the name Aliph Cheem, deserves mention. His Lays of Ind made him the Anglo-Indian Hood, and revealed to his delighted generation the humour latent in Anglo-Indian life. By its side, Thomas Francis Bignold's Leviora: being the Rhymes of a Successful Competitor deserves mention. Among miscellaneous prose writings of the...
