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Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist; he was also considered a philosopher, although he himself rejected the title. Gibran is the third most widely read poet in history, after Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu. Though he considered himself to be mainly a painter, lived most of his life in the United States, and wrote his best-known works in English, Kahlil Gibran was the key figure in a Romantic movement that transformed Arabic literature in the first half of the twentieth century. These pieces spoke to the experiences and loneliness of Middle Eastern immigrants in the New World. For Arab readers accustomed to the rich but difficult and rigid tradition of Arabic poetry and literary prose, many of the forms and conventions of which went back to pre-Islamic Bedouin poetry, Gibran’s simple and direct style was a revelation and an inspiration. His themes of alienation, disruption, and lost rural beauty and security in a modernizing world also resonated with the experiences of his readers.
Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet made him the third most-sold poet ... Kahlil Gibran is widely cited as the third most-read poet in history, after William Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu, largely due to the immense popularity of his book The Prophet. First published in 1923, The Prophet has sold millions of copies in the United States alone and has been translated into over 120 languages.
