Download or read book William Blake and Kahlil Gibran written by George El-Hage and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Blake and Kahlil Gibran, Poets of Prophetic Vision is a book of literary criticism in English. This book is a comparative study of two major Romantic poets and is unique in its scope and content. Its uniqueness and relevance stem from the fact that it remains the only comprehensive comparative study done on Blake and Gibran. While some remarks about Blake's influence on Gibran can be found scattered in books on the Lebanese-American poet, no other serious attempt has been made to bring the two major authors together in a thorough comparison with a detailed analysis of their works. In addition to asserting Blake's supreme influence on Gibran, this book also explicitly addresses the influence of the Bible on the writings, artwork and lives of both Blake and Gibran. It highlights the effect of Anglo-American Romanticism and the Transcendentalist Movement on the Lebanese poet and traces the temporary, yet powerful, impact of Nietzsche on Gibran. The book also attempts to explore the importance of prophetic vision, to address prophecy, to define the function of imagination in relation to nature, and to establish the role of the poet as the supreme visionary and prophet. There is evidence that Gibran knew some of Blake's poetry and was familiar with his drawings during his early years in Boston. However, this knowledge of Blake was neither deep nor complete. Kahlil Gibran was reintroduced to William Blake's poetry and art in Paris, most likely in Auguste Rodin's studio and by Rodin himself. It was then that Gibran read Blake's complete works and his biography and carefully studied many reproductions of Blake's drawings. From that time on, Blake played a special role in Gibran's life. In Paris, Gibran was called "the twentieth-century Blake." Blake's and Gibran's reading of the Bible, their rebellion against Church corruption, and their sociopolitical visions were very similar. Both men rejected reason in favor of imagination and shared the muse of art and poetry equally. This is not to say that Gibran was a mere copy of Blake, but to affirm that in Blake he found the support and confirmation for his own early doctrines that he developed before or during reading Blake. The book also highlights and analyses the two differences in the authors' convictions: their respective concepts of Nature and their views of Reincarnation. The book is divided into five chapters and it places Gibran in his proper historical context as it attempts to draw contrasts and comparisons with all major Anglo-American romantic and transcendentalist writers. It concludes with presenting both Gibran and Blake as poets of the Bible and tries to clarify the controversy regarding Gibran's response to Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra." Gibran respected Nietzsche and learned from him how to present his ideas in a messianic overtone. However, Gibran disagreed with the German philosopher and fully accepted Blake's concept of Christ. Christ remained Blake's and Gibran's idol and hero, the role model after whom they fashioned their lives.
Download or read book William Blake and Kahlil Gibran written by George Nicolas EL-HAGE and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Blake Kahlil Gibran written by George Nicolas El-Hage and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Blake and Kahlil Gibran written by George Nicolas El- Hage and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Madman written by Kahlil Gibran and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume is in part translation from the Arabic parables, in part written directly in English. A small book of only seventy pages, it is a product of the poet's youth and early manhood, rich with promise of what was to follow. It is entirely of the East, with no shading of Western thought or content. It is an expression of the passionate inner life not yet restrained and controlled by the vaster wisdom andcompassion that came to bud in The Forerunner and to full flower in The Prophet . . . "Here for the first time Gibran registers fully his sense of that aloneness which remained with him always, even unto the end. Always he was alien to this planet, to this time and this scene, yet always he battled to reduce this distance between himself and ourselves. But as he once said, 'Ye would not.'" --Barbara Young, in This Man from Lebanon: A Study of Kahlil Gibran
Download or read book Gibran and Blake written by Raḍwá ʻĀshūr and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Forerunner written by Kahlil Gibran and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your own giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation." "And I too am my own forerunner, for the long shadow stretching before me at sunrise shall gather under my feet at the noon hour. Yet another sunrise shall lay another shadow before me, and that also shall be gathered at another noon." "Always have we been our own forerunners, and always shall we be. And all that we have gathered and shall gather shall be but seeds for fields yet unploughed. We are the fields and the ploughmen, the gatherers an the gathered."
Download or read book The Prophet written by Kahlil Gibran and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1923, “The Prophet” is a book containing twenty-six prose fables written by Lebanese-American poet Kahlil Gibran. Al Mustafa, the prophet, is preparing to leave the city he has called home for 12 years when he is stopped by a group of people, who proceed to ask him many questions related to the nature of life and being human. The main contents of this book comprise his answers, which take the form of aphoristic advice and suggestions. Gibran's masterpiece has been translated into more than 100 languages, making it among the most translated books ever written. Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883 – 1931) was a Lebanese-American poet, writer, and artist whose work covers such themes as justice, religion, science, free will, love, happiness, the soul, the body, and death. He is widely considered to have been one of the most important figures in Arabic poetry and literature during the first half of the twentieth century. Other notable works by this author include: “Music” (1905), “Rebellious Spirits” (1908), and “Broken Wings” (1912). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Download or read book Prophet written by Kahlil Gibran and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry essays written in English by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Kahlil Gibran. The prophet, Almustafa, has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years and is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses topics such as life and the human condition. The Book is also Kahlil Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages, and the American editions alone have sold more than nine million copies. It is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. Gibran's musings are divided into twenty-eight chapters covering such sprawling topics as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.
Download or read book Sand and Foam written by Kahlil Gibran and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of aphorisms, poems, and parables by the author of "The Prophet" - a philosopher at his window commenting on the scene passing below.
Download or read book The Twain Shall Meet written by Jeffrey Singer and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Visions of the Prophet written by Kahlil Gibran and published by Frog Limited. This book was released on 1997 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The millions who know and love "The Prophet" will find this new selection of poems by Kahlil Gibran thoughtful, lyrical, and true to the various stages of a person's life. Composed over the course of his life, from the first piece written on his 25th birthday to the last poem penned shortly before his death, Gibran's inspirational writings on love, death, and the care of the soul reflect the moods and abilities of each age and each passage.
Download or read book The Prophet written by Kahlil Gibran and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1997 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1923, this masterpiece of religious inspiration and timeless appeal offers deep insight into every facet of existence: love, marriage, children, work, freedom, pain, joy, sorrow, friendship, and time.
Download or read book Kahlil Gibran The Nature of Love written by Andrew Dib Sherfan and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illuminating study examines the renowned Lebanese author’s poetic depictions of love in its various forms and phases. Kahlil Gibran sees love as a burning fire, creating and destroying. Though it is at the center of life, it is for many a wellspring of strife and unsolved problems. Indeed, it seems that the more we write about it, the more mysterious it becomes. Yet there are those rare authors who can shine the light of truth on the subject—authors like Gibran. In this volume, Gibran scholar Andrew Dib Sherfan explores the various aspects of love according to the famous Lebanese poet and philosopher. Gibran’s writing is full of mystic symbolism and metaphors, many of which reveal profound insights into the nature of love between man and woman, parent and child, God and human, and individual and society.
Download or read book The Beloved written by Kahlil Gibran and published by Puffin. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
Download or read book The Eye of the Prophet written by Kahlil Gibran and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2008-01-29 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eye of the Prophet is a luminous collection of Gibran's writings translated from Arabic into French and now into English. Here the author is the poetic, philosophical moralist, grounded in Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity, seeking the best in people, refusing to separate humankind from the natural world. Ordinary work and life, he says, has the potential to be inherently noble, if we can learn to enact our affairs with the sublimity of nature's creations. Gibran’s descriptions celebrate the dignity and freedom of animals, birds, the seasons, oceans, clouds. His is a poet’s eye; he abhors the “tentacles of government” and calls on citizens to question all ideologies. In this book he writes about life’s great moments and passages (The First Kiss, The First Glance, The Mystery of Love, Youth); eternal essences (Earth, The Nature of Woman, Marriage, Love, Truth, Poetry), and grapples with nationalism, religion, and spiritual growth. The Eye of the Prophet blends Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist ideals into a great spiritual tapestry that transcends all cultural divisions. With its vibrant, rhythmic language, it speaks to our challenging times as a worthy companion to The Prophet.
Download or read book Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience written by William Blake and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience" by William Blake. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
