The Seasons of the Soul: The Poetic Guidance and Spiritual Wisdom of Herman Hesse
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781583943137 (1583943137)
ASIN: 1583943137
Publish date: October 11th 2011
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Pages no: 136
Edition language: English
“To cut through the charades of this world, to despise it, may be the aim of great thinkers. My only goal in life is to be able to love this world, to see it and myself and all beings with the eyes of love and admiration and reverence …” Hesse is one of the writers I fell in love with at school, a...
This short book is well structured, with an informative and detailed introduction to each section of poems. Each of these excellent introductions give an intimate sense of Hesse the poet, his passions and his torments. The poems that follow were, like most poetry volumes, made up of verses that reso...