Poetry and the Rich?
Miraculously, Felix Dennis can somehow lay claim to being both a published poet and one of the richest men in Britain.
Rich he may be, but selfish he ain’t: in his forthcoming book, How to Get Rich, he shares his blueprints for achieving success in the business world with the rest of us.
Along these same lines, he’s provided The Guardian’s top 10 list for the day: the top 10 anti-poverty books. Now before you think that his list includes pragmatic treatments of world poverty and how to end it, know that these are the top ten books “that goaded [him] into abandoning poverty.”
Noteworthy titles on Dennis’ list include Dickens’ Great Expectations, The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, and An Anthology of World Poetry. Somehow, reading a collection of “wide-ranging, eye-opening” poetry inspired Dennis to “make lots and lots of money” so as to avoid what he calls “the usual, dreary poet-in-the-rat-infested-garret syndrome.”
Not quite the typical response to great verse, is it?
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