‘The Omega Quartet’, so-called because the contents are largely of an omega-orientated order of transcendentalism with ideological overtones, is comprised of four books of free-verse poetry written during the early 1980s, viz. ‘Stressing the Essential’, ‘Spiritual Intimations’, ‘The Modern Death’, and ‘Trees’, which provides an alternative approach to the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism that has the virtue of bringing all of John O’Loughlin’s poetic works of a philosophical nature together in one substantial volume. The cover shows a quartet-like abstract painting by the author.