[17] From _The Story of a Round-House_ by John Masefield. Copyright,
1913, by The Macmillan Company. Reprinted by permission of the
publishers.
[18] From _Good Friday and Other Poems_ by John Masefield. Copyright,
1916, by The Macmillan Company. Reprinted by permission of the
publishers.
_Lord Dunsany_
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany, was born July 24,
1878, and was educated at Eton and Sandhurst. He is best known as an
author of fantastic fairy tales and even more fantastic plays. _The
Gods of the Mountain_ (1911) and _The Golden Doom_ (1912) are highly
dramatic and intensely poetic. _A Night at an Inn_ (1916) is that
peculiar novelty, an eerie and poetical melodrama.
Dunsany's prime quality is a romantic and highly colored imagination
which is rich in symbolism. After the World War, in which the
playwright served as captain in the Royal Innis-killing Fusiliers,
Dunsany visited America and revised the reissue of his early tales and
prose poems collected in his _The Book of Wonder_.