Nicholas Hagger has three new books coming out
in December: Selected Poems: Quest for
the One, which contains extracts from his collected poetic works, his two
poetic epics and his verse plays; Selected
Stories: Follies and Vices of the Modern Elizabethan Age, a selection from
his 1,000 miniature stories, each of which has a vivid title; and The Dream of Europa, a poetic masque in
the tradition of Ben Jonson’s court masques in the early 17th century, celebrating
70 years of the EU.
The first two books reflect his statement of
the fundamental theme of world literature in A New Philosophy of Literature: a dialectic between a quest for the
One and condemnation of social vices from an implied virtue. Prefaces in these
books show that his poems and stories are rooted in the 17th century.
To read the back covers of these books, see www.nicholashagger.co.uk.
