John O'Meara
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 342
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A Trilogy bringing together titles by John O’Meara that are also individually available from iUniverse. The Modern Debacle Containing close readings of work by Beckett, Hemingway, and T.S.Eliot; Tennessee Williams, Chekhov, Arthur Miller, and Brecht; Plath, Hughes, and Robert Graves, and W.B. Yeats. “beautifully and fluently written and ingenious in its combination of catastrophes” --Anthony Gash, Drama Head, The University of East Anglia Myth, Depravity, Impasse An in-depth study of Robert Graves, the modern theory of myth and Ted Hughes, with further reference to Shakespeare and to Keats. “I am very sympathetic to the cause of myth and especially in relation to literature” --Michael Bell , author of Literature, Modernism and Myth in a letter to John O’Meara This Life, This Death An extensive study of Wordsworth’s great life-crisis, with additional reference to S.T. Coleridge, and to P.B. Shelley. “Of this Wordsworth book, one recognizes its truth, its breadth of coverage and awareness, and above all its depth...” --Richard Ramsbotham, editor of Vernon Watkins, New Selected Poems, Carcanet Press.