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Edwin Arnold

1832 - 1904

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Sir Edwin Arnold (10 June 1832 – 24 March 1904) was an English poet and journalist. He is best known for his 1879 work, The Light of Asia. Born in Gravesend, Kent, Arnold's early education at King's School, Rochester, and later at King's College London and University College, Oxford, laid the groundwork for his career. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edwin Arnold has received more than 159,526 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Edwin Arnold is the 3,539th most popular writer (down from 2,815th in 2019), the 2,538th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,121st in 2019) and the 288th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Gulliver of Mars
Classic Literature, Fiction, Science Fiction
1976
The voyage of Ithobal
1901
The Light of Asia
1994
The light of Asia, or, the great renunciation (mahâbhinishkramana)
Poetry, Teachings, Accessible book
1879
The wonderful adventures of Phra the Phoenician
Fiction, Phoenicians
1880
The light of Asia
Poetry, Buddhism, Buddha and Buddhism
1879

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edwin Arnold ranks 3,539 out of 7,302. Before him are Kim Stanley Robinson, Jozef Miloslav Hurban, Françoise Giroud, Donald Barthelme, Xiao Hong, and Howard Pyle. After him are Cotton Mather, Václav Hanka, Jien, Jovan Sterija Popović, Anna Gavalda, and Mikhail Zhvanetsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Edwin Arnold ranks 56. Before him are Theodor Gomperz, Arthur Hughes, Charilaos Trikoupis, Jules Vallès, Mary Ann Cotton, and Carl Neumann. After him are Leslie Stephen, Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino, Colin Archer, Pavel Chistyakov, and Wilhelm Julius Foerster. Among people deceased in 1904, Edwin Arnold ranks 63. Before him are Georg Sauerwein, Sumner Paine, James Longstreet, Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin, Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi, and Martin Johnson Heade. After him are Leslie Stephen, Ferdinand Mannlicher, Karl Alfred von Zittel, Larin Paraske, Nikolay Mikhaylovsky, and Miltiadis Gouskos.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edwin Arnold ranks 2,538 out of 8,785. Before him are Hugh Despenser the younger (1287), Ebenezer Cobb Morley (1831), James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce (1838), Marianne North (1830), Warwick Davis (1970), and Edward Blyth (1810). After him are Gordon Jackson (1923), Barry Jackson (1938), Leslie Stephen (1832), John Thaw (1942), Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928), and Dominic Purcell (1970).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Edwin Arnold ranks 288. Before him are John Evelyn (1620), Robert Kerr (1755), David C. H. Austin (1926), Andrew Lang (1844), William Cowper (1731), and Henri Alleg (1921). After him are Leslie Stephen (1832), Edith Durham (1863), George Gissing (1857), Graham Hancock (1950), I. A. Richards (1893), and Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893).

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