On Nature and the Goddess in Romantic and Post-Romantic Literature

Book excerpt: A Trilogy bringing together titles by John OMeara 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 OMeara This Life, This Death An extensive study of Wordsworths 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