The King of Elfland’ s Daughter is the most purely beautiful thing Lord Dunsany has written. There may be better or more exciting things in some of the short tales, but nowhere else has he had such a long run on that Pegasus of his that carries him east of the East and west of the West — not curving round the world, as he once said to me, but going on straight into regions that the makers of the Arabian tales of enchantment knew, or which lay in neighbouring kingdoms of romance.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The King of Elfland’ s Daughter is the most purely beautiful thing Lord Dunsany has written. There may be better or more exciting things in some of the short tales, but nowhere else has he had such a long run on that Pegasus of his that carries him east of the East and west of the West — not curving round the world, as he once said to me, but going on straight into regions that the makers of the Arabian tales of enchantment knew, or which lay in neighbouring kingdoms of romance." in the context of "George William Russell, "A Maker of Mythologies",The Living Age magazine, 29 March 1926. Also quoted in Harold Bloom, Classic Fantasy Writers, Chelsea Horse, 1994 (p.61)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.