Kahlil Gibran
1883--1931
"poet, philosopher, and artist, was born in Lebanon, a land that has produced many prophets. The millions of Arabic-speaking peoples familiar with his writings in that language consider him the genius of his age. But he was a man whose fame and influence spread far beyond the Near East. His poetry has been translated into more that twenty languages. his drawings and paintings have been exhibited in the great capitals of the world and compared by Auguste Rodin to the work of William Blake. In the United States, which he made his home during the last twenty years of his life, he began to write in English. The Prophet and his other books of poetry, illustrated with his other books of poetry, illustrated with his mystical drawings, are known and loved by innumerable Americans who find in them an expression of the deepest impulses of man's heart and mind."
The Books of
KAHLIL GIBRAN
"His power came from some great reservoir of spiritual life else it could not have been so universal and so potent, but the majesty and beauty of the language with which he clothed it were all his own."--Claude Bragdon
The Madman · 1918
Twenty Drawings · 1919
The Forerunner · 1920
The Prophet · 1923
Sand and Foam · 1926
Jesus the Son of Man · 1928
The Earth Gods · 1931
The Wanderer · 1932
The Garden of the Prophet · 1933
Prose Poems · 1934
Nymphs of the Valley · 1948
Spirits Rebellious · 1948
A Tear and a Smile · 1950
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Beloved Prophet:
The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran
and Mary Haskell
Edited by Virginia Hilu
This man from Lebanon:
A Study of Kahlil Gibran
by Barbara Young
Published By Alfred A. Knopf
