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	Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Countess of Fingall, wife of Dunsany's cousin the Earl of Fingall, wrote a best-selling account of the life of the aristocracy in Ireland in the late 19th century and early 20th century, called Seventy Years Young.
		Lord Dunsany was educated at Eton and Sandhurst.
		Lord Dunsany would often conceive stories while afield hunting, and would return to the manor and draw in his family and servants to re-enact his visions before he set them on paper.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lord_Dunsany (891 words)

	TheFreeBookShop.com - Library - Lord Dunsany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Lord Dunsany is cited as a major influence by many writers and artists and as an important figure in the development of fantastic literature by editors, academics and critics.
		Dunsany was a patron and supporter to a number of fellow writers, especially the poet Francis Ledwidge, whom he encouraged greatly and to whom he opened his library.
		Dunsany helped Ledwidge with publication and sadly it fell to him also to arrange posthumously the issue of the two later collections of his work (although Dunsany opposed it strongly, Ledwidge enlisted during World War I and was killed).
	dunsany.thefreebookshop.com (1140 words)

	Lord Dunsany: Pioneer of Modern Fantasy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The early stories and novels of Lord Dunsany laid the foundations of modern fantasy literature, and yet, despite the profound influence of his exotic and highly polished writings upon the genre, he remains, paradoxically, a neglected and under-appreciated writer.
		Dunsany was for a time seen as part of the Irish Renaissance, and Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany (Churchtown, Ireland: The Cuala Press, 1912) includes an introduction by Yeats, who at that point sought to "claim" Dunsany for Ireland.
		Dunsany noted on several occasions the paradox of his voracious appetite for hunting and the slaughter of animals on the one hand and his deep-rooted interest in nature and animals on the other.
	www.abbookman.com /ABBookman_F090304a.html (3496 words)

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		Dunsany's sarcastic tone of contempt for Christianity was evident in his portrayal of the "Freer", [a play on the word friar], the slaying of the Unicorn, [representing Christ], and description of the Church doctrines or rules that the people are meant to follow, "our holy rites", [Dunsany, pg, Dr Stitt, Lecture Notes].
		Dunsany's example of Orion slaying the Unicorn, [representing Christ], was a portrayal of Christianity as a contemptible religion worthy of death.
		Dunsany speaking through the character of Zirondel the Witch, voices his opinion about what a world would be like without magic, the wonderful myths, folklore, which ignorant, represented by the Freer would have gone.
	www.unlv.edu /faculty/jmstitt/Eng477/papers1/organized.html (1627 words)

	University of Delaware: MONTGOMERY EVANS II COLLECTION OF LORD DUNSANY MANUSCRIPTS
		The Irish poet, playwright, and short story writer, Lord Dunsany (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett), was born in London on July 24, 1878.
		Lord Dunsany's works, especially his short stories, are known for their fantasy, myth, humor, and exoticism.
		Dunsany's own copy with the title changed by Dunsany to "Songs of an L.D.V." There are autograph notes and changes through the book made by Lord Dunsany.
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/findaids/dunsany.htm (1616 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Arthur C. Clarke & Lord Dunsany: A Correspondence
		Lord Dunsany was a big game hunter, chess-master, Boer War and WW1 soldier, and one of the greatest and most influential fantasy writers of modern times.
		Dunsany has a sense of the wonder of space, without the least notion of the science involved in studying or navigating it.
		Dunsany, in turn, lends his childlike sense of marvel and curiosity to his letters, wondering throughout their correspondence when the dark side of the moon will first be photographed.
	www.sfsite.com /09a/cor40.htm (982 words)

	Lord Dunsany—Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett
		He was also a keen marksman and a fine player of cricket (Dunsany had a fine cricket ground), tennis (there is a court beside the Castle) and chess (he was an amateur champion and drew with Grand Master Capablanca; he also wrote chess puzzles for the Times and invented his own variant form of chess).
		Dunsany helped Ledwidge with publication and sadly it fell to him also to arrange posthumously the issue of the two later collections (although Dunsany opposed it strongly, Ledwidge enlisted during World War I and was killed).
		Lord Dunsany had an attack of appendicitis while dining with Lord and Lady Fingall (of Killeen) at Dunsany and never regained consciousness after being operated on.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/dunsany/about.htm (650 words)

	On the Alleged Influence of Lord Dunsany on Clark Ashton Smith
		Dunsany's worlds or lands are "beyond the East" and "at the edge of the world"; they are deliberately vague, but with no pretension of geographical existence, on our globe or any other.
		Such conviction of belief and such depth of feeling are usually lacking in Dunsany, who seems to have the air of a worldly—wise and ingenious raconteur relating agreeable entertainments to a sophisticated audience.
		This is true not only of Dunsany's later Jorkens tall tales but even of much of his earlier and more sincerely intended prose, wherein Dunsany's creation of an elaborate mythology often appears to be an ingenious game, a game which doesn't evoke deep emotions in the reader.
	www.eldritchdark.com /bio/on_the_alleged_influence_of_lord_dunsany.html (2152 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: Books
		Dunsany’s settings tended to be imaginary, the bejewelled domains of scimitar-wielding warriors, kings, beggars, thieves, and prophets answering to pagan pantheons that bore scant resemblance to the Celtic legends that Yeats loved.
		Dunsany’s father died in 1899, leaving his twenty-one-year-old son in possession of a venerable title, a comfortable fortune, a country house in England, and the family castle in County Meath.
		Dunsany had some sense of what was called for; he published a collection of wartime sketches that he had written for the propaganda office.
	newyorker.com /critics/books/?041206crbo_books1 (2766 words)

	Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany
		Dunsany felt that Lady Gregory had plagiarised Argimenes in The Deliverer staged a week earlier, and Oliver St John Gogarty reckoned that Yeats envied Dunsany's title.
		Dunsany's reputation was further enhanced by The Book of Wonder (1912), largely inspired by Sime drawings, and several short plays became popular, especially in America.
		Dunsany scored a London hit in 1921 with a full length play, If, another Eastern fantasy, then turned to novels such as The Chronicles of Rodrigues (1922) and The Blessings of Pan (1927).
	www.irelandseye.com /aarticles/history/people/writers/dunsany.shtm (377 words)

	Lord Dunsany Free Essays
		Lord of the Flies The Lord of the Flies had 4 main characters: Ralph, Simon, Jacky, and Piggy.
		This is where it starts when the Lord King of Aragon had taken the kingdom of Murica from King En Fernando of Castile and devastated much of his territory.
		When the woman (Eve) saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it.
	www.mytermpapers.com /search/66511.html (823 words)

	Powell's Books - The Charwoman's Shadow (Del Rey Impact) by Lord Dunsany
		An old woman who spends her days scrubbing the floors might be an unlikely damsel in distress, but Lord Dunsany proves once again his mastery of the fantastical.
		The Dunsany magic is in full flower in "The Charwoman's Shadow," the tale of an impoverished nobleman's son apprenticed to a magician.
		Lord Dunsany was Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, the eighteenth baron of an ancient line.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=0345431928 (422 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Time and the Gods
		Lord Dunsany was a big game hunter, chess-master, Boer War and WW1 veteran, and one of the greatest and most influential fantasy writers of modern times.
		Lord Dunsany is widely regarded as a seminal 20th-century writer of fantasy, the originator of many of the tropes we see in story after story, and a master stylist.
		As time goes on, Dunsany makes connections with Earth more explicit, and by the last couple of books much effort is spent mourning the departure of "Romance," pushed out by modern times, industry and suburbs and so on.
	www.sfsite.com /06b/tg83.htm (1522 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Lord Dunsany - Author
		He was educated at Eton College and Sandhurst, and inherited his father's title in 1899, becoming the 18th Lord Dunsany at the age of 21.
		Lord Dunsany was a master of the short story.
		Lord Dunsany wrote a number of plays which were successfully produced both at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and on Broadway.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A670060 (841 words)

	Great Science-Fiction & Fantasy Works: Lord Dunsany
		Dunsany seemed most at home with the short story--indeed (as you have seen), with the very short story (the 51 tales collected as The Food of Death take up 130 pages, and that in unusually large type with a lot of white space).
		Dunsany's power of language is so dominating that it would be easy to forget that even with less mellifluous telling his tales would still be worthy reading.
		Dunsany's worlds, as suggested by the earlier samples, are various: some, but by no means all or even many, are of the medieval sort so dominant today; many seem Biblical, others Eastern; some are thoroughly contemporary.
	greatsfandf.com /AUTHORS/LordDunsany.php (1983 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Hashish Man and Other Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Classifying Dunsany with Mercedes Lackey or Terry Brooks is, in addition to being extremely distressing for the present author even to imagine, on a par with mixing Dom Perignon with one of those cheap orange flavored beverages that have never been anywhere near a citrus grove.
		Lord Dunsany's works are gradually coming back into print, a great relief to someone who has liked his works for a long time.
		Dunsany's prose tends to be dreamy, lush, and unabashed in its Eastern tone.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0916397459?v=glance (2351 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The King of Elfland's Daughter (Millennium Fantasy Masterworks S.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		When the men of Erl asked that they be ruled by a magic lord, their lord bowed to their wishes and sent his eldest son, Alveric, beyond the fields we know, to the land of faery to win the hand of Lirazel, the King of Elfland's sweet and beautiful daughter.
		Lord Dubsany's 'The King of Elfland's Daughter' is about the human world or as Dunsany put it 'The Fields We Know' and the curiosity and conflictions that it has with Elfland and its lack of sunrise but still a land full of endless beauty as well as peril.
		Lord Dunsany was a hunter and their are many references to this fact that people may find unnecessary or against their principles.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/185798790X (946 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The King of Elfland's Daughter (Del Rey Impact) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Lord Dunsany's best-known novel is The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924), wherein the men of Erl desire to be "ruled by a magic lord," and the lord's heir, Alveric, ventures into Elfland to win the king's daughter, Lirazel.
		Dunsany's story of the love betwee a young human nobleman and an elf princess inspired the Aragorn and Arwen story in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, but Dunsany's approach to fantasy is quite different from Tolkien's.
		Dunsany was an enthusiastic hunter himself, and, to judge from John Cummins' "The Hound and the Hawk: The Art of Medieval Hunting" (1988), he knew how deer were pursued and taken "par force" by his Anglo-Norman ancestors.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/034543191X?v=glance (3657 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: The Book of Wonder by Lord Dunsany
		"Dunsany was the second writer (William Morris in the 1880's being the first) fully to exploit the possibilities of.
		The descendents of John Plunkett became noblemen; the baronies of Louth and of Fingall are branches of Dunsany's family.
		Most fantasy enthusiasts consider Lord Dunsany one of the most significant forces in modern fantasy; his influences have been observed in the works of Fletcher Pratt, H.P. Lovecraft, L. Sprague de Camp, Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, and many other modern writers.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/eBook1624.htm (1180 words)

	Fifty-One Tales, by Lord Dunsany (trade paperback)
		Sprague de Camp has said: "Dunsany was the second writer (William Morris in the 1880's being the first) fully to exploit the possibilities of...
		And Dunsany's "Jorkens" tales are the direct progenitors of such books as Arthur C. Clarke's Tales of the White Hart and Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp's Tales of Gavagan's Bar.
		If this is your first encounter with Lord Dunsany, you will be delighted, moved, amused, and caught up in the sheer poetry of his words.
	www.wildsidepress.com /product.asp?itemid=434&catid=140 (292 words)

	Dunsany - Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) - Writer - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A complex and fascinating character, and an important contributor to literature, Lord Dunsany was a versatile and creative writer, with works including fantasy, drama, poetry, science fiction, prose, autobiography...
		He once ran for public office, and was thought by some of his peers to be a bit eccentric but he was a devoted family man and heir to a great old family tradition with a keen sense of heritage and duty.
		For queries about literary, dramatic and all other rights, which are overseen by a four-person team at Dunsany, you may contact this e-mail; details of most such matters are handled by the agency to the Estate and its international associates.
	www.dunsany.net /18th.htm (1342 words)

	Women's roles in the world of Lord Dunsany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Lord Dunsany's writing revolves around relationships between women and the world around them.
		Dunsany not only speaks of this power but places this power upon her body in the form of amazing beauty:
		Her beauty was as a dream, was as a song; the one dream of a lifetime dreamed on enchanted dews, the one song sung to some city by a deathless bird blown far from his native coasts by storm in Paradise.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/dunsany/lieb8.html (372 words)

	Classic: "The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap", by Lord Dunsany
		The 18th of his line, Dunsany was a skilled sportsman (cricket and tennis) and Irish national chess champion who once held Grand Master Capablanca to a draw.
		Lord Dunsany is justly regarded as one of the best writers of all time, largely on the 'atmospheric' qualities of his work and his linguistic mastery.
		Like many of his contemporaries, Dunsany did not regard himself as restricted to any one genre, but his imaginative tales have influenced so many (Tolkein, Lovecraft and Lewis among them) that his work can fairly be said to form part of the foundation of modern fantasy literature.
	tsat.xepher.net /stories/coronation.thomas.shap.html (1477 words)

	Miskatonic University Campus Events
		In a letter to Frank Harris, Dunsany wrote: "I think I owe most of my style to the reports of proceedings in the divorce court; were it not for these my mother might have allowed me to read newspapers before I went to school; as it was she never did.
		Of Dunsany's fantastic imagination Lovecraft wrote: "Dunsany is the greatest of the name-coiners, and he seems to have three distinct models-the Oriental (either Assyrian or Babylonian, or Hebrew from the Bible), the classical (from Homer mostly), and the Celtic (from the Arthurian cycle, etc.).
		Dunsany's only didactic idea is an artist's hatred of the ugly, the stupid, and the commonplace.
	www.yankeeclassic.com /miskatonic/dliterature/authors/dunsany/bio/dunsany.htm (1252 words)

	Official Site of the Dunsany family and the author Lord Dunsany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The 18th Lord Dunsany is one of the most acclaimed names in the field of fantastic fiction, held in high esteem by many of today's major writers.
		Dunsany Castle, dating back to the 1180's, in the townland of the same name in County Meath northwest of Dublin, is Ireland's oldest home (with brief interruptions from such as Cromwell) and one of its older buildings.
		Art across the generations: a manuscript by the 18th Lord, Edward Plunkett, writer, sportsman, chessplayer..., from his Book of the Phoenix, along with one of his writing sets (he often used hand-cut quill pens) and other Castle heirlooms, accompanied by fine tableware designed by his namesake grandson, artist and designer, the 20th Lord.
	www.dunsany.net (656 words)

	Lord Dunsany, The King of Elfland's Daughter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Lord Dunsany was a master fantasist of the early part of our century.
		Dunsany, excitingly enough, gives us the consequences of the actions of marrying a fairy.
		The influence of this book and Dunsany's other writings are obvious once the glow of finishing the book fades a little, and the reader can really think about what she has read.
	www.rambles.net /dunsany_daughter.html (412 words)

	Greenwood Publishing Group I1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In this, the first academic study of Dunsany's work, Joshi establishes that Dunsany has a remarkable grasp of the symbolic function of fantasy, and that he used fantasy, horror, and the supernatural as metaphors for his most deeply held convictions on life and society.
		His entire work is unified by a single overriding theme--the need for human reunification with the natural world--even though this theme takes on many different forms (e.g., scorn of industrialization, demonstration of the moral superiority of animals over human beings, rumination on the extinction of the human race).
		The course of Dunsany's long career--proceeding from early short stories and plays about the "edge of the world" to full-length novels to tales of comic fantasy (such as the popular Jorkens stories) to sensitive works about Ireland--reveals a writer constantly searching for new ways to express his central philosophic and aesthetic conceptions.
	info.greenwood.com /books/0313294/0313294038.html (371 words)

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