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Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany: Lord Dunsany of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
 
 


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Name: Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany
Variant Name: Lord Dunsany, Edward J M Plunkett Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett
Birth Date: July 24, 1878
Death Date: October 25, 1957
Nationality: British, Irish, English
Gender: Male

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Biography of Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany
7,378 words, approx. 25 pages
Lord Dunsany was an aristocrat, a soldier, a sportsman, an avid chess player, and an author. He wrote many things, both in terms of genre--poems, plays, stories, novels, and essays--and in quantity. Such a varied and prolific career was typical of many...
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Biography of Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany
4,839 words, approx. 16 pages
The career of Lord Dunsany all too easily invokes the stereotype of the aristocratic literateur. By his own avowal, he was first of all a sportsman and a soldier; writing was an avocation. His plays, especially, reflect this approach, never quite...
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Biography of Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany
3,597 words, approx. 12 pages
Extraordinarily prolific in the fields of fiction, poetry, essay, translation, autobiography, and memoir, including fifteen short-fiction collections and at least one hundred uncollected short stories, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, the eighteenth...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by S. T. Joshi
13,897 words, approx. 46 pages
An American editor and critic, Joshi is the leading figure in H. P. Lovecraft scholarship and criticism. In the following excerpt, he traces prominent themes, concepts, and imagery in Dunsany's works.
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Critical Essay by Cornelius Weygandt
10,113 words, approx. 34 pages
In the following excerpt, Weygandt surveys Dunsany's dramas.
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Critical Essay by AE [pseudonym of George Russell]
2,538 words, approx. 9 pages
Through his work and his charismatic personality, AE was highly influential among the writers of the Irish Renaissance, a generation which sought to reduce the influence of English culture and create a national literature in Ireland. He was central to the rise of the Irish National Theater, and, with W B. Yeats, J. M. Synge, and Lady Gregory, was one of the founders of the Abbey Theater. In the following essay, which originally appeared in Irish Statesman, AE praises Dunsany's imagination and prose ...
 


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