Who is Joseph Campbell

Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American writer. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human experience. Campbell's best-known work is his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in which he discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero shared by world mythologies, termed the monomyth.

Since the publication of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell's theories have been applied by a wide variety of modern writers and artists. His philosophy has been summarized by his own often repeated phrase: "Follow your bliss." He gained recognition in Hollywood when George Lucas credited Campbell's work as influencing his Sta...
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Joseph Campbell Poems

• The Hills Of Cualann
  In the youth of summer
  The hills of Cualann
  Are two golden horns,
  Two breasts of childing,...
• The Blind Man At The Fair
  O to be blind!
  To know the darkness that I know.
  The stir I hear is empty wind,
  The people idly come and go....
• On Waking
  Sleep, gray brother of death,
  Has touched me,
  And passed on.
  ...

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Joseph Campbell Quotes

• What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
• Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

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