The Diary of Dr John William Polidori, 1816 - Relating to Byron, Shelley, Etc. (Paperback)

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."

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
Release date:	July 2014
First published:	June 2014
Authors:	John William Polidori
Editors:	William Michael Rossetti
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-07228-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	1-108-07228-3
Barcode:	9781108072281

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