Lebanon Post Khalil Gibran "The Prophet"

LEBANON POST in 1983 issued this stamp sheet of Khalil Gibran featuring artwork from his most famous book, "The Prophet". He is chiefly known in the English-speaking world for this 1923 book, which was an example of inspirational fiction including a series of philosophical essays written in poetic English prose.

The book sold well despite a cool critical reception, gaining popularity in the 1930s and again especially in the 1960s counterculture. 

Gibran was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer member of the New York Pen League. His art and poetry has been often likened to that of 18th century British poet and artist William Blake.

In my youth, he was one of those writers, along with Hesse, Nietzsche, Jung, Thoreau and Frost, that I read extensively and owned at one time many of his books.