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The Diary of Dr John William Polidori
John William Polidori
其他書名
Relating to Byron, Shelley, Etc
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2014
ISBN
5877500929
9785877500921
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pVT1oQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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. William Michael Rossetti (1829 - 1919) was an English writer and critic. Publisher's note.