The life and awakening of Prince Gautama, who leaves his palace to become the Buddha, told in flowing verse.
Books that mention Light of Asia (2)
Bushido: The Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe: “Listen to a modern English poet, who in his _Light of Asia_, speaks of a sword piercing the bowels of a queen”
The Pit by Frank Norris: “…afternoon once a week, spent in his studio in the Fine Arts' Building on the Lake Front, where he read to them "Saint Agnes Eve," "Sordello," "The Light of Asia"--poems which, with their inversions, obscurities, and astonishing arabesques of rhetoric, left Aunt Wess' bewildered, breathless, all…”