Hagger’s Collected Poems
1958–2005 cover his quest for Reality, his descent through a Dark Night , his
experience in the Cold War, his illumination and his ascent to a unitive vision
of the One. His journey recalls Dante’s. He also condemns the follies and vices
of our time. In these 1,478 poems he reflects the Age.
Hagger’s Classical Odes
presents the first four-book odes since Horace. In more than 300 odes he
catches the mood of our time: dismay at the end of the Great Britain of
Churchill and Montgomery, and awareness of a new Europeanness and globalism
that are replacing
Hagger has written two
poetic epics. Overlord, the Triumph of Light 1944–45, is the first major poetic
epic in the English language since Milton’s Paradise Lost. In the tradition of
Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Aeneid it describes the last year of the Second
World War, from D-Day to the fall of Berlin and the dropping of the first
atomic bomb. Its hero is Eisenhower, and so this is as much an American epic as
an English epic.
Armageddon, an Epic Poem on
the War on Terror and of Holy-War Crusaders, describes President George W
Bush’s struggle against the Islamic extremism of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda
from September 11 2001. It covers the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. The
title ‘Armageddon’ refers to the news confirmed by Hans Blix of the IAEA in 2004
that bin Laden had purchased at least 20 nuclear suitcase-bombs.
As the hero is George W Bush this is as much an American epic as
an English epic.
All these poetic works by Nicholas Hagger are
available from www.nicholashagger.co.uk or Amazon.
