According to Sara Crosby, the new popular ‘power of horror’—in writings by Poe and many others—gave American authors a new way of moving beyond beauty through the ‘poisonous muse.’ This new power corresponds to the vitalizing changes in Jacksonian America and brings with it a major change in US literary history. Her study of these changes in the US cultural scene is an incredibly engaging, vibrant narrative.

Shakespeare has been a source of creative engagement and contest for Irish writers. The present volume addresses the treatment of Shakespeare in the work of Yeats, Joyce, Bowen, Wilde, Shaw, Beckett and McGuinness and also that of Irish language writers.

The fifth book of the Pulse of Creation Series, encompasses three planets. Muse, the planet of the Inspirational Arts, literature, drama, sculpting, music and painting. Unarius is the planet of Leadership and Integration. Elysium is dedicated to the art of Worshiping.

Following his earlier volume, The Amorous Cannibal, which greatly widened his reputation, Chris Wallace-Crabbe's new collection continues his passion for irony with each poem using both the formality and playfulness of wit to evoke the unknowable and ecstatic.

Vols. for 19-- -1949/50 include: Art news annual (title varies slightly). issued as a separate section of a regular number; 195--1959 issued as a separate volume.

Experience the thrill of life on the edge and set your adrenalin pumping! These gripping stories see heroic characters fight for survival and find love in the face of danger. Trouble has followed pregnant artist Kayla to the Oregon town where she hopes to paint away memories of a brutal attack.