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John William Polidori
Infobox Writer
name =John William Polidori
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birthdate = birth date|1795|7|7|df=y
birthplace =
deathdate = death date and age|1821|8|24|1795|7|7|df=y
deathplace =
occupation = Physician, Writer
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movement =
influences =
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website =
John William Polidori (
Family
Polidori was the oldest son of
His sister Frances Polidori married exiled Italian scholar
Biography
Polidori was one of the earliest pupils at recently established
In 1816 Dr. Polidori entered Lord Byron's service as his personal physician, and accompanied Byron on a trip through Europe. At the
One night in June, after the company had read aloud from the "
Dismissed by Byron, Polidori travelled in Italy and then returned to
His long, Byron-influenced theological poem "
He died in London on August 1821, weighed down by depression and gambling debts. Despite strong evidence that he committed suicide by means of
Post mortem
His sister Charlotte made a transcription of his Diaries, but censored "peccant passages" and destroyed the original. Based only on the transcription, "The Diary of John Polidori" was edited by
A number of films have depicted John Polidori and the genesis of the "Frankenstein" and "Vampyre" stories in 1816: "Gothic" directed by
Paul West's novel "Lord Byron's Doctor" (1989) is a recreation, and ribald fictionalization, of Polidori's diaries. West memorably depicts him as a literary groupie whose attempts to emulate Byron eventually unhinge and destroy him.
Polidori is a central character in the novel "Gothic Romance" (or "Bravoure" in the original French edition) by
ources
* Nigel Leask, "Polidori, John William (1795–1821)", "
Further reading
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External links
* The text of "The Vampyre" can be found at http://gothic.vei.net/lordruthven/rvampyre1.htm
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** [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6087 Project Gutenberg's E-Text] of "The Vampyre"
* [http://www.geocities.com/nights_of_thunder/dr_polidori.html The Polidori Files] The web's first link portal devoted entirely to John William Polidori, author of "The Vampyre".
* [http://www.ampleforthcollege.york.sch.uk/academic_life/english/eng_polidori.htm Polidori at Ampleforth College]
* The Spanish Short Movie "The Vampyre by John W. Polidori", starred by Paul Naschy, can be seen here [http://www.aullidos.com/tv.asp?bcpid=1138370296&bclid=1119252050&bctid=1301088834]
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