I was reading an article recently that talked about how this author, Lord Dunsany, had great influence on the field of Fantasy, but his books are rare. Also some, I believe, have been reprinted recently. Anyone know anything about his work?
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Re: Lord Dunsany
Fri, September 10, 2004 - 10:58 AMDunsanay was a big indirect influence on modern horror and fantasy writers via his influence on H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and possibly Robert E. Howard. He wrote sorta victorian sword and sorcery stuff, a la CS Lewis or Tolkein.
As I recall, he was pals with Yeats, and with Yeats and Arthur Machen (another Lovecraftian influence), was a member of the Golden Dawn -the same group of occultists that Crowley eventually ran into, and ran away with.
His books aren't rare. I found them in my tiny little hometown branch library when I was 11 and on a Lovecraft kick. I remember liking "The Gods of Panganea" a lot, but I was 11.
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Re: Lord Dunsany
Sat, March 31, 2007 - 8:49 PMif dunsany heard that he was a member of the golden dawn he'd be rather surprised.
Yeats was, yes. And Machen. But Dunsany? nope. An Irish Peer, who wrote his books with a quill pen (in one draft!) while sitting on a crumpled hat in a castle in Ireland. A strange and fabulous man, whose interests and insight into the world of faerie and the meaning of story were intense, but a simple man as well, and while his magic resounds within his books, he was not a practicing mage. A sportsman and writer, yes, a magician, no.
hi books are mostly out of print, but many are not rare.
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Sat, January 5, 2008 - 12:14 PM" if dunsany heard that he was a member of the golden dawn he'd be rather surprised. "
Looking again, I think you may be right, though he certainly running with a lot of those fellows in his literary circle, and he published stuff in the Equinox (a golden dawn successor group's journal dedicated to such things).
For example: issue 2:
www.the-equinox.org/vol1/no2/index.html
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Re: Lord Dunsany
Sat, January 5, 2008 - 12:15 PMNot that anyone actually said Dunsany was in the GD.
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