Welcome to the library of Nicholas Hagger

Nicholas Hagger’s main thrust has been literary (selected and collected poems, epic poetry, verse plays, short stories, autobiography and diaries) but he has also written history and philosophy, which have grown out of his need to clarify ideas thrown up by his literary work.

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His collected works to date are:

Literature

Poetry Volumes

• Selected Poems: A Metaphysical’s Way of Fire (1991)
• Collected Poems: A White Radiance, 1958-1993 (1994) which includes:
  • A Well of Truth, 1958-1963
  • A Stone Torch-Basket, 1963-1965
  • The Early Education and Making of a Mystic, 1965-1966
  • The Silence, 1965-1966
  • The Wings and the Sword, 1966-1969
  • Old Man in a Circle, 1967
  • The Gates of Hell, 1969-1972
  • The Flight, 1970
  • Bulb in Winter, 1972-1974
  • A Pilgrim in the Garden, 1973-1974
  • The Night-Sea Crossing, 1974
  • Visions Near the Gates of Paradise, 1974-1975
  • The Four Seasons, 1975
  • Lighthouse, 1975
  • The Weed-Garden, 1975
  • The Labyrinth, 1976
  • Whispers from the West, 1976-1979
  • Lady of the Lamp, 1979
  • The Fire-Flower, 1980
  • Beauty and Angelhood, 1981
  • The Wind and the Earth, 1981
  • A Rainbow in the Spray, 1981-1985
  • Question Mark Over the West, 1986-1988
  • A Sneeze in the Universe, 1989-1992
  • A Flirtation with the Muse, 1992-1993
  • Sojourns, 1993
  • Angel of Vertical Vision, 1993
• Collected Poems, 1958-2005 (2006), which includes the above and also:
  • A Dandelion Clock, 1994-2004
  • Summoned by Truth, 2000-2005
  • Sighs of the Muses, 2005
• Classical Odes: Poems on England, Europe and a Global Theme, and of Everyday Life in the One, 1994-2005 (2006), which includes:
  • Book One, A Tudor Knot
  • Book Two, In Europe’s Ruins
  • Book Three, A Global Sway
  • Book Four, The Western Universe

Epic Poems

• Overlord: The Triumph of Light, 1944-1945 (published in four separate volumes 1995-1997)
  • Overlord, books 1-2 (1995)
  • Overlord, books 3-6 (1996)
  • Overlord, books 7-9 (1997)
  • Overlord, books 10-12 (1997)
• Overlord: The Triumph of Light, 1944-1945 (one-volume edition, 2006)
• Armageddon: The Triumph of Universal Order, An Epic Poem on the War on Terror and of Holy-War Crusaders (2010)

Verse Plays

• The Warlords: From D-Day to Berlin, Parts 1 and 2 (1995)
• The Tragedy of Prince Tudor: A Nightmare (1999)
• Collected Verse Plays (2007), which includes the above and also:
  • Ovid Banished (1999)
  • The Rise of Oliver Cromwell (2000)
  • The Warlords, abridged version of Parts 1 and 2 (2000)

Short Stories

• A Spade Fresh with Mud, Collected Stories, Volume 1 (1995)
• A Smell of Leaves and Summer: Collected Stories, Volume 2 (1995)
• Wheeling Bats and a Harvest Moon: Collected Stories, Volume 3 (1999)
• The Warm Glow of the Monastery Courtyard: Collected Stories, Volume 4 (1999)
• Collected Stories: A Thousand and One Mini-Stories or Verbal Paintings (2007), which includes:
  • In the Brilliant Autumn Sunshine: Collected Stories, Volume 5 (2007)

Autobiographical

• Awakening to the Light: Diaries, Volume 1, 1958-1967 (1994)
• A Mystic Way: A Spiritual Autobiography (1994)

Literary Investigations

• A New Philosophy of Literature: The Fundamental Theme and Unity of World Literature. The Light and the Shadow: The Vision of the Infinite and the Universalist Literary Tradition (to be published on 27 January 2012)

Literary Travelogues/Eyewitness History

• Scargill the Stalinist?, The Communist Role in the 1984 Miners’ Strike (1984)
• The Last Tourist in Iran, From Persepolis to Nuclear Natanz (2008)
• The Libyan Revolution: Its Origins and Legacy, A Memoir and Assessment (2009)
• A View of Epping Forest (To be published on 25 May 2012)

History

Universalist Cultural History

• The Fire and the Stones: A Grand Unified Theory of World History and Religion (1991)
• The Light of Civilization: How the Vision of God has Inspired All the Great Civilizations (2006)
• The Rise and Fall of Civilizations: Why Civilizations Rise and Fall and What Happens When They End (2008)

Historical Investigations

• The Syndicate: The Story of the Coming World Government (2004)
• The Secret History of the West: The influence of Secret Organisations on Western History from the Renaissance to the 20th Century (2005)
• The Secret Founding of America: The Real Story of Freemasons, Puritans and the Battle for the New World (2007)
• The Secret American Dream: The Real Story of Liberty’s Empire and the Rise of a World State (2011)

Philosophy

Universalist Philosophy

• The Universe and the Light: A New View of the Universe and Reality (1993)
• The One and the Many: Universalism and the Vision of Unity (1999)
• The New Philosophy of Universalism: The Infinite and the Law of Order (2009)

Universalist Political Philosophy

• The World Government: A Blueprint for a Universal World State (2010)