In "Classical Odes", Nicholas Hagger achieves a blend of poetry and
history, of the traditions of Herodotus and Pausanias (both of whom
visited classical sites) and of Virgil and Horace (who wrote of
everyday life in the countryside). In the first four-book "Odes"
since "Horace", he addresses the concerns regarding Western
civilisation of Pound, Eliot and Yeats - particularly, the concern
Eliot had about the impact of Europe on the man of letters - and
finds a new way of carrying them forward. He catches the mood of
our time: dismay at the end of the Great Britain of Churchill and
Montgomery, elegiac feeling that Englishness is being superseded by
Europeanness and globalism, and Britain's hesitant fumblings for a
new identity in a time of transition. Never before has Western's
civilization's cultural legacy been captured in verse that has such
contemporary relevance.
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