'The Modern Death' offers both a critique of the materialistic superficiality of modern life and a spiritually-oriented ideological solution to it in the form of Social Transcendentalism, which was first introduced into the author's poetry with the volume 'Spiritual Intimations'(1982), but here achieves a metaphysical depth of insight that was one of the factors in his subsequently abandoning poetry for philosophy in order to concentrate unequivocally on his theorizing. Be that as it may, this volume has a right to be regarded as metaphysical poetry, even though John O'Loughlin's concept of metaphysics was to undergo a radical overhaul in the years since the composition of these poems.
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By John O'Loughlin
Oct 1, 2011
"THE MODERN DEATH" Despite the nature of its title, this collection of some forty-four poems written in free verse is not overly pessimistic or defeatist but even optimistic in its repudiation of the bleaker aspects of modernity and projection of intellect towards a brighter future in which Social Transcendentalism, as described by the author, offers mankind a way out of its contemporary predicament.
