About Nicholas Hagger (http://www.nicholashagger.co.uk)

Nicholas Hagger had two new books out earlier in 2015: My Double Life 1: This Dark Wood and My Double Life 2: A Rainbow over the Hills.

These two works are autobiographical. The first ends in 1973 and the second continues to the present. They chronicle 93 experiences of the mystical Light from on-the-day diary entries. They describe his transformation which left his instinctively seeing the world and universe as a unity. They tell the story of the growth of his philosophy Universalism which is like a rainbow with seven bands. The seven bands are the seven disciplines in which he has written: literature, mysticism, history, comparative religion, philosophy, international politics/statecraft and culture.

It is a fascinating story which takes us behind the creation of his philosophical outlook and covers several disciplines. The books leave us with a clear insight into the universe and the unity of humankind.

To read the back covers of these books, see www.nicholashagger.co.uk.

Nicholas Hagger’s poetry books are available at www.nicholashagger.co.uk

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 traditional national feeling.

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.