Lord Dunsany (1878-1957), Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett (original) (raw)

Biographical Materials

• Informative brief Biography (Irelandseye.com)
• Donald Clarke's Biography (Miskatonic University)
• Another brief biography plus links and materials on Dunsany's chess (creative.net)
• Biographical Essay on the official Family Site (Ireland)
• Official family site with information about Dunsany Castle (Ireland)
• Biography at Knowledgerush

Works in the Victorian Web

• The Book of Wonder (14 stories)
• Fifty-one Tales

Literary Relations

• Echoes of the Decadents and Symbolists: The Fantasies of Dunsany
• Lord Dunsany in the Context of Fantasy and Fairy Tale
• H. P. Lovecraft (needed)
• Donald Sidney on Dunsany and Clark Ashton Smith (Outside the Victorian Web)
• Dunsany's Influence on Lorca and Borges (Outside the Victorian Web)
• Magic Mirrors and Windows in Dunsany, MacDonald, Tolkien, and others

Artistic Relations

• Victorian Fantasy Art and Illustration
• Sidney Sime — Dunsany's Illustrator and Collaborator (Finland)
• Sidney Sime (UK) — contains biography, timeline, and gallery of works

Other Cultural Contexts

• Religion and Philosophy
• Political Themes and Contexts
• The Cultural Context: Victorianism

Theme and Technique

• Themes
• Characterization
• Imagery, Symbolism, and Motifs

Genre & Mode: Dunsany's Long Fiction, Plays, and Poetry

• The Charwoman's Shadow — extensive critical essay by Philip Raines
• Olivia Harding on The King of Elfland's Daughter
• Jos Vos Post's Essay on Dunsany's Poetry
• Dunsany's Thirteen Broadway Productions (Internet Broadway Database)

Bibliography and other resources

• Reading and discussion questions
• Montgomery Evans II Collection of Lord Dunsany Manuscripts (University of Delaware)
• Online Books by Dunsany (U. of Pennsylvania)
• Joshi, S. J. Lord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995.
• Bibliography (Fantastic Fiction; UK)
• Bibliography (Texas A&M)

Last modified 15 May 2008