Author:Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett

For authors with similar names, see Author:Edward Plunkett.

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett
(1878–1957)

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett

Works

Original Collections

• The Gods of Pegāna (1905)
• Time and the Gods (1906)
• The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (1908) (illustrated by Sidney Herbert Sime)
  • The Sword of Welleran
  • The Fall of Babbulkund
  • The Kith of the Elf Folk
  • The Highwaymen
  • In the Twilight
  • The Ghosts
  • The Whirlpool
  • The Hurricane
  • The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth
  • The Lord of Cities
  • On the Dry Land
  • The Doom of La Traviata
• A Dreamer's Tales (1910)
• The Book of Wonder (1912)
• Fifty-one Tales (1915) (reprinted as The Food of Death: Fifty-one Tales)
  • "The Poet Speaks With Earth" (in English edition only)
• Tales of Wonder (1916) (published in America as The Last Book of Wonder)
• Tales of War (1918)
• Tales of Three Hemispheres (1919)
• Unhappy Far-Off Things (1919)

Reprint Collections

• Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany (1912)

Novels

• The Chronicles of Rodrigues (1922) (published in America as Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley)
• The King of Elfland's Daughter (1922) (start transcription)

Drama Collections

• Five Plays (1914)
  • The Gods of the Mountain
  • The Golden Doom
  • King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior
  • The Glittering Gate
  • The Lost Silk Hat
• Plays of Gods and Men (1917)
  • The Laughter of the Gods
  • The Tents of the Arabs
  • The Queen's Enemies
  • A Night at an Inn
• If (1921) (full-length play)
• Plays of Near and Far (1922)
  • The Compromise of the King of the Golden Isles
  • The Flight of the Queen
  • Cheezo
  • A Good Bargain
  • If Shakespeare Lived Today
  • Fame and the Poet

Essays and Sketches

• Nowadays (1918)

Poetry

• "Songs from an Evil Wood" from A Treasury of War Poetry, ... 1914-1919 (1917)

Other

• Introduction to A Dreamer's Tales and Other Stories by Padraic Colum (1917)
• Introductions to The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge (written 1914, 1916, and 1917; published 1919)
• "The Opal Arrow-Head," short story in Harper's Magazine, 1920 (Included in The Man Who Ate the Phoenix, 1947)

Works about Plunkett

• On Reading Lord Dunsany's Book of Wonder (1920) by H. P. Lovecraft
• To Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Eighteenth Baron Dunsany by H. P. Lovecraft
• "Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron," in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)
• "Dunsany, Baron," in Thom's Irish Who's Who (pp. 71−72), Dublin: Alexander Thom & Co. (1923)