Vampyre' and Other Writings

by Polidori, John William; Bishop, Franklin Charles;

  translated by Val Warner

  William Cowper Selected Poems

  edited by Nick Rhodes

  Gabriele d’Annunzio Halcyon

  translated by J.G. Nichols

  John Donne Selected Letters

  edited by P.M. Oliver

  William Dunbar Selected Poems

  edited by Harriet Harvey Wood

  Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea Selected Poems

  edited by Denys Thompson

  Ford Madox Ford Selected Poems

  edited by Max Saunders

  John Gay Selected Poems

  edited by Marcus Walsh

  Oliver Goldsmith Selected Writings

  edited by John Lucas

  Robert Herrick Selected Poems

  edited by David Jesson-Dibley

  Victor Hugo Selected Poetry

  in French and English

  translated by Steven Monte

  T.E. Hulme Selected Writings

  edited by Patrick McGuinness

  Leigh Hunt Selected Writings

  edited by David Jesson Dibley

  Wyndham Lewis Collected Poems and Plays

  edited by Alan Munton

  Charles Lamb Selected Writings

  edited by J.E. Morpurgo

  Lucretius De Rerum Natura: The Poem on Nature

  translated by C.H. Sisson

  John Lyly Selected Prose and Dramatic Work

  edited by Leah Scragg

  Ben Jonson Epigrams and The Forest

  edited by Richard Dutton

  Giacomo Leopardi The Canti

  with a selection of his prose

  translated by J.G. Nichols

  Stéphane Mallarmé For Anatole’s Tomb

  in French and English

  translated by Patrick McGuinness

  Andrew Marvell Selected Poems

  edited by Bill Hutchings

  Charlotte Mew Collected Poems and Selected Prose

  edited by Val Warner

  Michelangelo Sonnets

  translated by Elizabeth Jennings, introduction by Michael Ayrton

  William Morris Selected Poems

  edited by Peter Faulkner

  John Henry Newman Selected Writings to 1845

  edited by Albert Radcliffe

  Ovid Amores

  translated by Tom Bishop

  Fernando Pessoa A Centenary Pessoa

  edited by Eugenio Lisboa and L.C. Taylor, introduction by Octavio Paz

  Petrarch Canzoniere

  translated by J.G. Nichols

  Edgar Allan Poe Poems and Essays on Poetry

  edited by C.H. Sisson

  Restoration Bawdy

  edited by John Adlard

  Rainer Maria Rilke Sonnets to Orpheus and Letters to a Young Poet

  translated by Stephen Cohn

  Christina Rossetti Selected Poems

  edited by C.H. Sisson

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti Selected Poems and Translations

  edited by Clive Wilmer

  Sir Walter Scott Selected Poems

  edited by James Reed

  Sir Philip Sidney Selected Writings

  edited by Richard Dutton

  John Skelton Selected Poems

  edited by Gerald Hammond

  Charlotte Smith Selected Poems

  edited by Judith Willson

  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Selected Poems

  edited by Dennis Keene

  Algernon Charles Swinburne Selected Poems

  edited by L.M. Findlay

  Arthur Symons Selected Writings

  edited by Roger Holdsworth

  William Tyndale Selected Writings

  edited by David Daniell

  Oscar Wilde Selected Poems

  edited by Malcolm Hicks

  William Wordsworth The Earliest Poems

  edited by Duncan Wu

  Sir Thomas Wyatt Selected Poems

  edited by Hardiman Scott

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  About the Author

  JOHN WILLIAM POLIDORI was born in 1795 into a distinguished Anglo-Italian family. He was educated at Ampleforth College and the University of Edinburgh, where in 1815 he was awarded a degree of doctor of medicine, at the age of nineteen. In 1816 Polidori entered Lord Byron’s service as his personal physician, accompanying him on his travels through Europe. It was while staying with Mary Wollstonecraft, Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont at Byron’s rented house by Lake Geneva, that Polidori began to write his most famous work, The Vampyre. The novel was published in 1819, originally attributed to Byron. Polidori and Byron parted company later in 1816; for a time Polidori continued to travel through Europe alone, before returning to England in 1817. He settled in Norwich, where for some years he practised as a doctor and pursued his literary career, until a serious accident damaged his health and made it impossible for him to work. On 21 August 1821 he died at the family home in London after accidentally taking poison.

  FRANKLIN CHARLES BISHOP is a writer and journalist, and tutor for the University of Nottingham Continuing Education Department. He is the author of a life of Polidori and numerous articles on the Gothic.

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  First published in Great Britain in 2005

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  The publisher acknowledges financial assistance from Arts Council England