John William Polidori (1795–1821) was, for a brief period, the personal physician to Lord Byron. Half Italian, he was the uncle of the Rossetti siblings, and it was William Michael Rossetti, in his role as family recorder, who published Polidori's manuscript diary after nearly a century, in 191...

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1. Verfasser:	Polidori, John William 1795-1821 (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1911
Schriftenreihe:	Cambridge library collection. Literary studies
Schlagworte:	Polidori, John William > 1795-1821 Geschichte 1800-1900 Poets, English / Homes and haunts / Europe Poets, English / 19th century / Biography Europa Europe / Intellectual life / 19th century Biografie
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Zusammenfassung:	John William Polidori (1795–1821) was, for a brief period, the personal physician to Lord Byron. Half Italian, he was the uncle of the Rossetti siblings, and it was William Michael Rossetti, in his role as family recorder, who published Polidori's manuscript diary after nearly a century, in 1911. This account of his time with Byron (which ended two months later when they quarrelled and parted company) is the only contemporary account of the few weeks, crucial to the development of the Romantic movement, during which Mary Shelley's Frankenstein arose from a storytelling competition at the Villa Diodati. Polidori's later career as a physician and writer was hampered by a severe accident in 1817 which left him with brain damage. His most famous work, The Vampyre, was published in 1819, but attributed to Byron, leading both men to threaten the publisher with lawsuits. Polidori died (probably a suicide) two years later
Beschreibung:	Includes index
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (vi, 228 pages)
ISBN:	9781107444713
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9781107444713