Verses Dedicatory
Cover of Verses Dedicatory: 18 Previously Unpublished Poems | |
Author | Lord Dunsany |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Series | Charnel House Chapbooks Series |
Genre | poetry |
Publisher | Charnel House |
Publication date | 1985 |
Media type | Print (Hardback) |
Pages | 12 p. |
Verses Dedicatory: 18 Previously Unpublished Poems is a collection of poetry by fantasy author Lord Dunsany, edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback as a chapbook by Charnel House as no. 2 in The Charnel House Chapbooks Series in 1985.
The book collects eighteen poems hand-written by the author on the flyleaves of copies of several of his published books. The copies in which the poems were found and from which they were taken are from the library of Hazel Littlefield. The titles assigned the poems are those of the books in which they appear. The collection includes an introduction by the editor.
Contents
- "Introduction" (Lin Carter)
- "Wandering Songs"
- "The Story of Mona Sheehy"
- "Tales of Three Hemispheres"
- "Rory and Bran"
- "Don[n]ellan Lectures"
- "The King of Elfland's Daughter"
- "The Sirens Wake"
- "Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey"
- "The Blessings [sic] of Pan"
- "Plays for Earth and Air"
- "Don Rodriguez"
- "My Ireland"
- "Unhappy Far-Off Things"
- "My Talks with Dean Spanley"
- "Alexander and Three Small Plays"
- "The Curse of the Wise Woman"
- "To Awaken Pegasus"
- "The Book of Wonder"
References
- Joshi, S. T. (1993). Lord Dunsany: a Bibliography / by S. T. Joshi and Darrell Schweitzer. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 33.
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collections
- The Gods of Pegāna
- Time and the Gods
- The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories
- A Dreamer's Tales
- The Book of Wonder
- Fifty-One Tales
- The Last Book of Wonder
- Tales of Three Hemispheres
- The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens
- Jorkens Remembers Africa
- Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey
- The Fourth Book of Jorkens
- The Man Who Ate the Phoenix
- The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories
- Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey
- The Last Book of Jorkens
collections
- At the Edge of the World
- Beyond the Fields We Know
- Over the Hills and Far Away
- The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer, and Other Fantasms
- Time and the Gods
- The Collected Jorkens
- In the Land of Time, and Other Fantasy Tales
- Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley
- The King of Elfland's Daughter
- The Charwoman's Shadow
- The Curse of the Wise Woman
- Fifty Poems
- Verses Dedicatory
- Sidney Sime (preferred artist)
- John Plunkett, 17th Baron of Dunsany (father)
- Reginald Drax (brother)
- Dunsany Castle
- Edward Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany (grandson and literary heir)
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