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John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821) was a British writer and physician. He is known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction.
" The Vampyre " is a short work of prose fiction written in 1819 by John William Polidori taken from the story Lord Byron told as part of a contest among Polidori, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley. The same contest produced the novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. [1] "
Jan 26, 2010 · John William Polidori. Quoted verbatim from Wikipedia (1/26/2010) (7 September 1795 24 August 1821) was an English writer and physician of Italian descent. He is known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction .
John William Polidori was an Italian English physician and writer, known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. Polidori was the oldest son of Gaetano Polidori, an Italian political émigré scholar, and Anna Maria Pierce, a governess.
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Sep 25, 2023 · Abstract. Vampires in the eighteenth century are commonly assumed to have been monstrous undead peasants who slew indiscriminately and with no intellectual rationale, and that it was only with the publication of John William Polidori’s tale “The Vampyre” (1819) that the creatures became alluringly aristocratic.
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Jul 1, 2004 · Polidori, John William, 1795-1821: Title: The Vampyre; a Tale Note: The Vampyre was published in the April 1819 issue of New Monthly Magazine and was there erroneously attributed to Lord Byron. Credits: Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer. Language: English: LoC Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature: Subject ...
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Oct 16, 2014 · John Polidori (1795-1821) was born in Soho, the eldest son of an English mother and an Italian writer, translator, and literary jack-of-all-trades. Raised to great precocity in a multi-lingual and hyper-literate home, he was sent to board at the Catholic Ampleforth College at the age of eight.
