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Death. In 1957, Lord Dunsany became ill while dining with the Earl and Countess of Fingall at Dunsany, in what proved to be an attack of appendicitis. He died in hospital in Dublin, at the age of 79. He was buried in the churchyard of the ancient church of St Peter and St Paul, Shoreham, Kent. His funeral was attended by many family ...
27. Dez. 2019 · Publish with us. Policies and ethics. This chapter introduces Dunsany and the idea of fantasy rhythm. It proceeds to examine the formal patterns of contrast, opposition and repetition that govern his elaboration of the themes of time and death; the influence of precursors such as Baudelaire, Tennyson,...
- Anna Vaninskaya
- anna.vaninskaya@ed.ac.uk
- 2020
Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) 73 relatives of Dunsany who were killed in the War; as is true for his entire generation, the War had a tremendous impact on Dunsany and his work. A certain cynicism and sophistication seemed to creep into his stories and plays, but this trend was noticeable even in works written immediately before the War, and the War
Lord Dunsany, aged 79, who died in a Dublin nursing home on Friday, after a short illness, was an outstanding figure in Anglo-Irish literature. His literary output was prodigious, and, although he published nothing for the last three years, he was writing until a short while before his death.
This book reveals the unique contribution made by the three founding fathers of British fantasy – Lord Dunsany, E. R. Eddison and J. R. R. Tolkien – and traces the poetic, philosophical and theological roots of that striking preoccupation with mortality and temporality.
- Anna Vaninskaya
8. Feb. 1999 · Mon Feb 8 1999 - 00:00. The death has occurred of Lord Dunsany. He died on Saturday, aged 92, at Windfield Nursing Home, Dunboyne. Up until three weeks ago he had lived at the ancestral home...
28. Nov. 2004 · Dunsany’s father died in 1899, leaving his twenty-one-year-old son in possession of a venerable title, a comfortable fortune, a country house in England, and the family castle in County Meath.
