JOHN O’MEARA received his PhD from the University of East Anglia in 1986. He taught for many years at the University of Toronto and the University of Ottawa. He is the author also of "The Way of Novalis" and "This Life, This Death: Wordsworth’s Poetic Destiny". Visit the author's website at johnomeara.squarespace.com

“O'Meara is to be commended for his grasp of the philosophical questions that profoundly motivated Novalis and for his ability to integrate Novalis's life and thought into one narrative.” {Bernhard Radloff, from a book review in Studies in Romanticism, Vol.55, no.4, Winter 2016}

“A deeply personal, artistic and original meditation on that unique and living fusing of philosophy and poetry in the writings and biographical path of Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis).” {David W. Wood, editor and translator of "Novalis: Notes for a Romantic Encyclopaedia"}