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Le Vampire, d'après Lord Byron

Autor: John William Polidori

Número de Páginas: 38

1816, Villa Diodati, sur les bords du Léman, quelques amis se proposèrent une gageure: écrire en une journée une histoire de fantômes. Parmi eux, Mary Shelley qui écrivit Frankenstein et Lord Byron qui ébaucha une nouvelle : le Vampire. Polidori, le secrétaire particulier de Byron termina la nouvelle que ce dernier avait abandonnée. Un des premier vampire de la littérature, déjà sanglant mais aussi persuasif, cynique, hypnotique... Format professionnel électronique © Ink Book édition.

John William Polidori - Ximenes & Other Poems

Autor: John William Polidori

Número de Páginas: 96

John William Polidori was born on 7th September 1795 in London to Gaetano Polidori, an Italian political émigré scholar, and Anna Maria Pierce, an English governess. He was the eldest of 8 children. From 1804 Polidori was a pupil at the recently formed Ampleforth College. In 1810 he proceeded to the University of Edinburgh, where he wrote a thesis on sleepwalking and received his degree as a doctor of medicine on 1st August 1815. He was 19. In 1816, Dr. Polidori was given the job of Byron's personal physician and accompanied him on a trip through Europe. The publisher John Murray offered Polidori £500 to keep a diary of their travels. At the Villa Diodati, Byron's rented villa at Lake Geneva in Switzerland, the pair met with Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary's stepsister, Claire Clairmont. One night in June, after the company had read aloud from a French collection of German horror tales, Byron suggested they each write a ghost story. There were to be two outstanding works from that evening; 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley and Polidori's 'The Vampyre' which would be the first published modern vampire story in English. Dismissed by Byron, Polidori...

The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori

Autor: John William Polidori

Número de Páginas: 138

The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori

The Diary of Dr John William Polidori, 1816

Autor: John William Polidori

Número de Páginas: 241

This diary by Byron's doctor, published in 1911, is the only contemporary account of the creation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori, 1816

Autor: John William Polidori

Número de Páginas: 236

Excerpt from The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori, 1816: Relating to Byron, Shelley, Etc One of these writings is the text to a volume, published in 1821, entitled Sketches Illustrative of tile Manners and Costumes of France, Switzerland, ana7 Italy, by R. Bridgens. The name of Polidori is not indeed recorded in this book, but I know as a certainty that he was the writer. One of the designs in the volume shows the costume of women at Lerici just about the time when Shelley was staying there, in the closing months of his life, and a noticeable costume it was. Polidori himself - though I am not aware that he ever received any instruction in drawing worth speaking of - had some considerable native gift in sketching faces and figures with lifelike expression; I possess a few examples to prove as much. The Diary shows that he took some serious and intelligent interest in works of art, as well as in literature; and he was clearly a rapid and somewhat caustic judge of character perhaps a correct one. He was a fine, rather romantic looking young man, as evidenced by his portrait in the National Portrait Gallery, accepted from me by that Institution in 1895. About the Publisher Forgotten ...

The Living Dead

Autor: James B. Twitchell

Número de Páginas: 236

In his Preface to The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature, James Twitchell writes that he is not interested in the current generation of vampires, which he finds "rude, boring and hopelessly adolescent. However, they have not always been this way. In fact, a century ago they were often quite sophisticated, used by artists varied as Blake, Poe, Coleridge, the Brontes, Shelley, and Keats, to explain aspects of interpersonal relations. However vulgar the vampire has since become, it is important to remember that along with the Frankenstein monster, the vampire is one of the major mythic figures bequeathed to us by the English Romantics. Simply in terms of cultural influence and currency, the vampire is far more important than any other nineteenth-century archetypes; in fact, he is probably the most enduring and prolific mythic figure we have. This book traces the vampire out of folklore into serious art until he stabilizes early in this century into the character we all too easily recognize.

His Masters Reflection

Autor: Andrew Edwards , Suzanne Edwards

Número de Páginas: 238

Qualifying as a doctor in 1815 at the tender age of nineteen, John Polidori was employed less than a year later by the poet, Lord Byron, as his travelling physician. The precocious medic was seemingly destined for a bright future that would enable him to combine his profession with a love of literature. In His Masters Reflection, the authors follow Polidoris footsteps as he accompanies Byron through Europe to Switzerland where they eventually meet the Shelleys and Claire Clairmont. Fulfilling his fathers prophecy, the fateful summer will prove to have a devastating impact on Polidoris life and legacy. Byrons keen wit and elevated status would leave the sensitive doctor feeling isolated and undervalued. Fuelled by acerbic comments from the poets friends, Byron finally releases Polidori from his contract, leaving the penniless medic to wander over the Alps on foot to Italy, his fathers homeland. Despite attempts at establishing himself as a doctor to the expatriate community, he has to admit defeat and return to England. Still harbouring literary ambitions, his one chance at fame is cruelly denied when The Vampyre, the story he had written in Geneva, is attributed to Byron. Gossip...

Catalogue of Printed Books

Autor: British Museum

Número de Páginas: 556

El Vampiro

Autor: John Polidori

Número de Páginas: 51

El primer relato de vampiros conocido hasta hoy. La noche del 16 de junio de 1816, junto al lago Leman, en Suiza, Lord Byron sugirió al matrimonio Shelley y a Polidori que cada uno escribiese una historia de terror. Aunque ni Percy Shelley ni Byron cumplieron su parte, ese desafío dio lugar a dos de las obras cumbre del género gótico y fuente de inspiración para la literatura de terror posterior: Frankenstein o el moderno Prometeo y El vampiro. Protagonizada por Lord Ruthven, un aristocrático, sofisticado, misterioso y frío bebedor de sangre que resulta encantador para las mujeres de los círculos más selectos, esta obra funda uno de los personajes más fascinantes de la ficción literaria y fílmica, el vampiro.

Robert Polidori

Autor: Robert Polidori , Galerie De Bellefeuille

Número de Páginas: 62

The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori, 1816

Autor: John William Polidori

Número de Páginas: 250

British Museum Catalogue of printed Books

Número de Páginas: 556

The Vampyre

Autor: John William Polidori

Número de Páginas: 22

The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori

Autor: John William Polidori , William Michael Rossetti

Número de Páginas: 240

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760–1850

Autor: Christopher John Murray

Número de Páginas: 1304

In 850 analytical articles, this two-volume set explores the developments that influenced the profound changes in thought and sensibility during the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. The Encyclopedia provides readers with a clear, detailed, and accurate reference source on the literature, thought, music, and art of the period, demonstrating the rich interplay of international influences and cross-currents at work; and to explore the many issues raised by the very concepts of Romantic and Romanticism.

The Diary of Dr John William Polidori

Autor: John William Polidori

Número de Páginas: 240

A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 2 M-End

Autor: T. Bose , R. N. Colbeck

Número de Páginas: 569

The Colbeck collection was formed over half a century ago by the Bournemouth bookseller Norman Colbeck. Focusing primarily on British essayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the Romantic Movement through the Edwardian era, the collection features nearly 500 authors and lists over 13,000 works. Entries are alphabetically arranged by author with copious notes on the condition and binding of each copy. Nine appendices provide listings of selected periodicals, series publications, anthologies, yearbooks, and topical works.

Summer in the Shadow of Byron

Autor: Andrew Mcconnell Stott

Número de Páginas: 323

In the spring of 1816, Lord Byron was the greatest poet of his generation and the most famous man in Britain, but his personal life was about to erupt. Fleeing his celebrity, notoriety and debts, he sought refuge in Europe, taking his young doctor with him. As an inexperienced medic with literary aspirations of his own, Dr Polidori could not believe his luck. That summer another literary star also arrived in Geneva. With Percy Bysshe Shelley came his lover, Mary and her step-sister Claire Clairmont. For the next three months, this party of young bohemians shared their lives, charged with sexual and artistic tensions. It was a period of extraordinary creativity from which would emerge Frankenstein, the gothic masterpiece of Romantic fiction, Byron's Childe Harold, Shelley's Mont Blanc, and The Vampyre by John Polidori, the first great vampire novel. It was also a time of remarkable drama and emotional turmoil. For Byron and the Shelleys, their stay by the lake would serve to immortalise them in the annals of literary history. But for Claire and Polidori, the Swiss sojourn would scar them forever.