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Collected Prefaces: Nicholas Hagger's Prefaces to 55 of His Literary and Universalist Works

Collected Prefaces: Nicholas Hagger's Prefaces to 55 of His Literary and Universalist Works

by Nicholas Hagger
Collected Prefaces: Nicholas Hagger's Prefaces to 55 of His Literary and Universalist Works
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Collected Prefaces: Nicholas Hagger's Prefaces to 55 of His Literary and Universalist Works

Collected Prefaces: Nicholas Hagger's Prefaces to 55 of His Literary and Universalist Works

by Nicholas Hagger

Overview

Nicholas Hagger's 55 books include innovatory works on literature, history, philosophy and international politics. In his first published literary work he revived the Preface, which had fallen into disuse after Wordsworth and Shelley. He went on to write Prefaces (sometimes called ‘Prologues’, ‘Introductions’ or ‘Introductory Notes’) for all his subsequent books. Collected Prefaces, a collection of 55 Prefaces (excluding the Preface to this book), sets out his thinking and the reader can follow the development of his philosophy of Universalism (of which he is the main exponent), his literary approach (particularly his combination of Romanticism and Classicism which he calls "neo-Baroque") and his metaphysical thinking. His Prefaces can be read as essays, and as in T.S. Eliot’s Selected Essays there is an interaction between adjacent Prefaces that brings an entirely new perspective to Hagger's works. These Prefaces cover an enormous range. Nicholas Hagger is a Renaissance man at home in many disciplines. His Universalism focuses on humankind’s relationship to the whole universe as reflected in seven key disciplines seen as wholes: the whole of literature, history, philosophy and the sciences, mysticism, religion, international politics and statecraft and world culture. Behind all the Prefaces is Hagger’s fundamental perception of the unity of the universe as the One and of humankind’s position in it. These Prefaces complement his Selected Letters, a companion volume also published by O-Books, and contain startling insights that illumine and send readers to the works the Prefaces introduce.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789042733
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 05/01/2022
Pages: 576
Product dimensions: 6.15(w) x 9.03(h) x 1.19(d)

About the Author

Nicholas Hagger is the author of more than 50 books that include a substantial literary output and innovatory works within history, philosophy, literature and international politics and statecraft. As a man of letters he has written over 2,000 poems, two poetic epics, five verse plays, 1,200 short stories, two travelogues and three masques. In 2016 he was awarded the Gusi Peace Prize for Literature, and in 2019 the BRICS silver medal for 'Vision for Future'. He lives in Essex, UK.

Table of Contents

56 Preface to Collected Prefaces: Renaissance Man and the One: Literary and Universalist Thinking xi

The Prefaces 1

1 The Fire and the Stones 3

2 Selected Poems: A Metaphysical's Way of Fire 9

Preface on the Metaphysical Revolution 60

3 The Universe and the Light 79

4 Collected Poems 1958-1993: A White Radiance 83

5 A Mystic Way 85

6 Awakening to the Light 87

7 A Spade Fresh with Mud 91

8 Overlord, books 1-2 93

9 The Warlords 99

10 A Smell of Leaves and Summer 105

11 Overlord, books 3-6 107

12 Overlord, books 7-9 111

13 Overlord, books 10-12 115

14 The Tragedy of Prince Tudor 119

15 The One and the Many 123

16 Wheeling Bats and a Harvest Moon 127

17 The Warm Glow of the Monastery Courtyard 129

18 The Syndicate 131

19 The Secret History of the West 133

20 The Light of Civilization 135

21 Classical Odes 139

22 Overlord, one-volume edition 155

23 Collected Poems 1958-2005 159

24 Collected Verse Plays 165

25 Collected Stories 185

26 The Secret Founding of America 189

27 The Last Tourist in Iran 197

28 The Rise and Fall of Civilizations 205

29 The New Philosophy of Universalism 211

30 The Libyan Revolution 219

31 Armageddon 221

32 The World Government 231

33 The Secret American Dream 239

34 A New Philosophy of Literature 249

35 A View of Epping Forest 259

36 My Double Life 1: This Dark Wood 263

37 My Double Life 2: A Rainbow over the Hills 279

38 Selected Stories: Follies and Vices of the Modern Elizabethan Age 283

39 Selected Poems: Quest for the One 289

40 The Dream of Europa 301

41 Life Cycle and Other New Poems 305

42 The First Dazzling Chill of Winter 309

43 The Secret American Destiny 311

44 Peace for our Time 321

45 World State 327

46 World Constitution 339

47 King Charles the Wise 345

48 Visions of England 349

49 Fools' Paradise 357

50 Selected Letters 369

51 The Coronation of King Charles 375

52 A Baroque Vision 385

53 The Essentials of Universalism 401

54 The Promised Land 415

55 Fools' Gold 421

Appendices

1 Vision and Technique in the Collected Poems 437

2 The 25-year Gestation and Birth of Overlord 495

3 Letters from Nicholas Hagger to Christopher Ricks on A Baroque Vision 519

Indexes

1 Index of Works 533

2 Subject Index 537

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