Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron
Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron (1878–1957),Anglo‐Irish writer of short stories, plays, and novels; became 18th Baron of Dunsany (1899), and remained throughout his life one of the 20th century's most prolific writers of fantasy for adults. Influenced by the fairy tales of Oscar Wilde and the romances of William Morris, Dunsany began his literary career with the creation of his own mythical, quasi‐mystical universe in The Gods of Pegana (1905) and Time and the Gods (1906). The Sword of Welleran (1908) contained some of his best fantasy tales including the title story and ‘The Kith of the Elf‐Folk’, an account of a fairy‐like creature who chooses to enter the world of late Victorian England, finds it hypocritical and ugly, and then renounces her soul to escape. The tale manifests two abiding characteristics of Dunsany, his dislike of...
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