Dunsany in a sentence

After a delay due to a hunting trip in Africa, Dunsany invited the poet to his home, and they met and corresponded regularly thereafter, and Dunsany was so impressed that he helped with publication, and with introductions to literary society.

Early life Lady Dunsany, Beatrice Child Villiers Edward Plunkett grew up at the family properties, most notably Dunstall Priory in Shoreham, Kent and Dunsany Castle in County Meath but also family homes such as in London.

Prominent Dunsany scholar S. T. Joshi has described these shifts as Dunsany moving on after he felt he had exhausted the potential of a style or medium.

The grave of Lord Dunsany and his wife can be seen in the Church of England graveyard in the village (most of the previous barons are buried in the grounds of Dunsany Castle).

Whilst acting as the governor of Jamaica, Lord John Grey sends for his wife Isobel Dunsany and his illegitimate son Willie.

Bibliography main Notes Dunsany's literary rights passed from the author to a Trust, which still owns them.

Dunsany later realized this was his unconscious influence for the title Time and the Gods.

Dunsany's most notable fantasy short stories were published in collections from 1905 to 1919.

Dunsany's original manuscripts are collected in the family archive, including some specially bound volumes of some of his works.

Dunsany subsequently arranged for the publication of a third collection, and later a first Collected Edition.

Dunsany's writing habits were considered peculiar by some.

Following a successful lecture touring in the US in 1919–1920 and with his reputation now principally related to his plays, Dunsany temporarily reduced his output of short stories, concentrating on plays, novels, and poetry for a time.

Humorous fantasies narrated in a "gentleman's club" setting are common; they include John Kendrick Bangs ' A Houseboat on the Styx (1895), Lord Dunsany 's " Jorkens " stories, and Maurice Richardson 's The Exploits of Englebrecht (1950).

Interests Dunsany was a keen hunter (for many years hosting the hounds of a local hunt, as well as hunting in parts of Africa) and sportsman, and was at one time the pistol -shooting champion of Ireland.

It has been argued that Dunsany's inexperience with the novel form shows in the episodic nature of Don Rodriguez.

It has been said that Lord Dunsany would sometimes conceive stories while hunting, and would return to the Castle and draw in his family and servants to re-enact his visions before he set them on paper.

Lord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination (p. 152) One of the last Jorkens stories returns to this theme, referring to Beethoven's Tenth Symphony''.

Lord Dunsany played left half back for the 1938 championship winning team for Drumree.

LP & audiobooks * An LP of Vincent Price reading a number of Dunsany's short stories was released in the 1970s.

Many of Dunsany's later novels had an explicitly Irish theme, from the semi-autobiographical The Curse of the Wise Woman to His Fellow Men.