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	John Polidori - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John William Polidori (September 7, 1795 - August 24, 1821) is 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, and Anna Maria Pierce, a governess.
		Dismissed by Byron, Polidori returned to England, and in 1820 wrote to the Prior at Ampleforth; his letter is lost, but Prior Burgess' reply makes it clear that he considered Polidori, with his scandalous literary acquaintances, an unsuitable case for the monastic profession.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Polidori (704 words)

	John William Polidori: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about John William Polidori
		Polidori, the son of an Italian political émigré, was one of the first pupils at Ampleforth College[?].
		Polidori's Lord Ruthven was not only the first vampire in English fiction, but was the first fictional vampire in the form we recognize today---an aristocratic fiend who preyed among high society.
		Cruelly dismissed by Byron, Polidori returned to England, and in 1820 wrote to the Prior at Ampleforth; his letter is lost, but Prior Burgess' reply makes it clear that he considered Polidori, with his scandalous literary acquaintances, an unsuitable case for monastic profession.
	www.encyclopedian.com /jo/John-William-Polidori.html (495 words)

	John Polidori & the Vampyre Byron
		John Polidori was born on September 7th 1795 in London, the son of the former secretary to the poet/dramatist Alfieri.
		Polidori junior studied medicine and by the age of 20 had become personal physician and travelling companion to Lord Byron, on the suggestion of a mutual friend.
		Polidori was dismissed in September and returned to England, where he practiced medicine once more, began studying for the Bar, and fairly soon afterwards died.
	www.angelfire.com /jazz/louxsie/polidori.html (2296 words)

	John Polidori -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Polidori was the oldest son of (Click link for more info and facts about Gaetano Polidori) Gaetano Polidori, an Italian political émigré, and Anna Maria Pierce, a governess.
		Dismissed by Byron, Polidori returned to (A division of the United Kingdom) England, and in 1820 wrote to the Prior at Ampleforth; his letter is lost, but Prior Burgess' reply makes it clear that he considered Polidori, with his scandalous literary acquaintances, an unsuitable case for the monastic profession.
		Polidori's diary, titled The Diary of John Polidori and edited by (Click link for more info and facts about William Michael Rossetti) William Michael Rossetti, was first published in 1911 by (Click link for more info and facts about Elkin Mathews) Elkin Mathews (London).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john_polidori.htm (752 words)

	Outcyclopedia - John Polidori (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John Polidori was the son of Gaetano Polidori, an Italian expatriate, and an English mother.
		John Polidori's sister, Charlotte Lydia, was the mother of painter Gabriel Dante Rossetti and the poet Christina Rosetti.
		Polidori's first contribution to the ghost story competition was derisively described by Mary Godwin in her diary as "a terrible idea about a skull-headed lady." His next was "The Vampyre," about Lord Ruthven, a vampire whose description and personality were modeled on Byron.
	outcyclopedia.0catch.com /polidori.html (1607 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Vampyre: A Tale by John Polidori
		Due to the defaulting of the two favourites, Mary Shelley and John Polidori fought it out in the story ring, and it was Mary Shelley who prevailed in the end, with her hideous creation Frankenstein, and also being the only one who finished on time.
		Dr John William Polidori was born on 7 September 1795, son of Gaetano Polidori, an Italian who had settled in London as the secretary of the poet Vittorio Alfredi, and an Englishwoman, a Miss Pierce.
		Though not particularly of a literary background, Polidori was the uncle of the poet Christina Rossetti and the pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A2023048 (1688 words)

	John Polidori (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Polidori received his doctorate at only 19, one of the youngest recorded graduates of the University of Edinburgh where he studied mesmerism and wrote his thesis on sleepwalking.
		Polidori didn't get along well with Shelley--at one point even challenging him to a duel--but he had something of a crush on his wife Mary.
		Polidori wrote it up in response to a lady friend's challenge that there was not enough there to do anything with.
	pluto.scs.ryerson.ca /~monica/polidori.htm (421 words)

	polidori (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Polidori isn't a society of elitist "writers" (sniff, sniff), but a creative space for people who don't usually have a chance or a forum for them to write creatively or who don't consider themselves creative.
		Polidori, on the other hand, was not known for his writing prowess by the other guests, and his story The Vampyre, might be considered lesser in literary quality to Lord Byron and the Shelleys, all of whom were professional writers.
		Since John Polidori was more of an Everyman than the others in the group, it was appropriate for the founders of this creative writing society to name the organization after him.
	www.geocities.com /doggoddess.geo/polidori/polidori.html (1115 words)

	Biografía y cuentos de John W. Polidori
		Polidori, hijo de un político italiano emigrado, fue uno de los primeros pupilos en Ampleforth College.
		En 1816, ya covertido en médico, Polidori acompañó a Byron en un viaje a través de Europa.
		Polidori llamó a su personaje "Lord Ruthven" en clara alusión a Byron.
	www.letrasperdidas.galeon.com /c_polidori00.htm (530 words)

	bio of Polidori
		Polidori used later as inspiration for his own tale.
		Polidori's Lord Ruthven was not only the first vampire in English fiction,
		Polidori's story, [The Vampyre]?, was published in the April 1819 issue of [New
	www.ahauntedgallery.com /bio_polidori.html (370 words)

	Rod-back, birdcage Windsor Chairs, Salem Witch Trials, The Vampyre
		The baluster turnings of the older chairs were a holdover from the William and Mary period (early 18th century), while the bamboo of the rod-back was derived from the Federal syles of the day.
		However, Polidori had taken detailed notes during the trip, and used Byron's abandoned story as inspiration for his own tale.
		Polidori was inspired by real-life vampire cases that had occurred only a century before in Europe.
	www.bobdillonwindsorchairs.com /snpst09.html (1845 words)

	T h e P o l i d o r i F i l e s
		John Polidori & the Vampyre Biography of Polidori, and how his story "The Vampyre" was created.
		Polidori is portrayed ridiculously, like a total nut bag of no importance at all.
		Letter Facsimile From the National Portrait Gallery: "Handwritten copy (probably by John Murray) of a draft letter written by John Polidori to the editor of the Morning Chronicle giving an account of his role and that of Byron in the creation of The Vampyre." View a second letter (hand-copied by the same person) here.
	www.geocities.com /nights_of_thunder/dr_polidori.html (967 words)

	The Vampyre, a Tale by John Polidori
		After reading an anthology of German ghost stories, Byron challenged the Shelleys and his personal physician John William Polidori to each compose a story of their own.
		Of the four, only Polidori completed a story, though Mary conceived an idea, and this was the germ of Frankenstein.
		Polidori used this fragment to create the novel The Vampyre (1819), which is the origin of all subsequent vampire literature.
	manybooks.net /titles/polidorietext04vampy10.html (224 words)

	John Polidori's The Vampyre & Bram Stoker's Dracula
		John Polidori's The Vampyre and Bram Stoker's Dracula
		Polidori was born in 1795 and died in 1821.
		Polidori kept a journal of his experiences in Europe, plus a synopsis of Byron's story.
	www.gothicpress.freeserve.co.uk /Vampyre.htm (603 words)

	Open Directory - Arts:Literature:Authors:P:Polidori, John William (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John Polidori, British author of horror, born on September 7th 1795 in London.
		He studied medicine, and by the age of 20 had become personal physician and travelling companion to Lord Byron.
		Suicide, or the reckless abuse of drugs killed him at the age of twenty six.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Literature/Authors/P/Polidori,_John_William/desc.html (65 words)

	John William Polidori - Il Vampiro
		Figlio di Gaetano Polidori, un italiano emigrato in Inghilterra dopo essere stato per qualche tempo segretario di Vittorio Alfieri, John William ereditò dal padre la passione per gli intrighi misteriosi.
		Gaetano Polidori, infatti, era stato il primo a tradurre in italiano il Castle of Otranto di Horace Walpole.
		John William, precocissimo, si laureò appena diciannovenne in medicina all’Università di Edimburgo.
	digilander.libero.it /catafalco/letteratura/polidori.htm (867 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Three Vampire Tales: Dracula, Carmilla, and The Vampyre (New Riverside Editions) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The three featured stories are: John Polidori's "The Vampyre", the first vampire short story in English, published in 1819; "Carmilla" by Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu, published in 1872 as part of Le Fanu's "In a Glass Darkly" collection; and Bram Stoker's mythic 1897 novel "Dracula".
		John Polidori wrote "The Vampyre", based on a fragment that Lord Byron wrote but never finished.
		A note from the editor (Anne Williams): This volume brings together the texts needed to follow the evolution of the vampire through the nineteenth century.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618084908?v=glance (1443 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Vampyre: And Other Writings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A fascinating but shadowy figure of Romanticism, John Polidori was the sensitive but fierce writer behind one of literature's most notorious characters—the vampyre.
		This collection also makes available many of Polidori's lesser-known and hard-to-find works, including a medical thesis on nightmares, an essay on the source of pleasures, poetry and personal diaries, and the novel Modern Oedipus.
		John William Polidori was a physician and writer who is credited with the creation of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/185754787X (294 words)

	THE VAMPYRE by Polidori (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Byron’s unfinished idea was taken up by John Polidori, his doctor and fellow debauchee who was also on the holiday.
		Polidori’s novella The Vampyre appeared three years later, first in instalments in Colburn’s New Monthly Magazine and later as a complete volume on its own.
		In European translations the myth of Byron's authorship was perpetuated for several years because, as one continental publisher said, more or less: 'who's heard of Polidori?' Thanks to this ruse the novella survived much longer than at home, particularly in Germany where it sparked many imitations and sequels.
	www.unicorngarden.com /polidor.htm (4887 words)

	POLIDORI-GGIII
		(1791) as a bridge between the infamous Medregia vampire case of Paole in the 1730's and Polidori's novel to chart a shift in the treatment of vampirism from "a well-contained menace to society" to a way of analyzing "the relations of sexuality and individualism, law and power.
		The violent combatants of Polidori's novel display the vampire's victorious mastery of homosocial relations and [the victim's] failure to dodge homoerotic desire."
		"John William Polidori, M. and Lord Byron--A Brief Interlude in 1816." 0614
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	Charles Nodier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the summer of 1816, Byron, Shelley, Mary Shelley and Polidori were forced to spend a few days in a villa on Lake Geneva.
		Polidori was dismissed in September and returned to England.
		Polidori practiced medicine once more, but died two years after the publication of
	www.blackcoatpress.com /polidori.htm (94 words)

	www.Vampire-World.com - Biographien: John William Polidori
		Der Schöpfer des Ruthven ist John William Polidori, ein weitgehend unbekannter Geist seiner Zeit, der es nie zu der Popularität seines famosen Intimus, dem schillernden Lord Byron, bringen sollte.
		Polidori hegte bereits zu der Zeit literarische Ambitionen.
		Das Ergebnis ist weltbekannt, Mary Shelley ersinnt ihren Frankenstein, Polidori den "Vampyr", der allerdings auf Motiven Byrons beruht.
	www.vampire-world.com /biographien/einzelnebiographien/johnpolidori.htm (720 words)

	Articles - William Michael Rossetti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		William Michael Rossetti (September 25, 1829 – February 5, 1919) was an English writer and critic.
		Born in London, he was the youngest child of immigrant Italian scholar Gabriele Rossetti, and the brother of Maria Francesca Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Georgina Rossetti.
		He wrote a study of his maternal uncle John William Polidori (physician to Lord Byron), a comprehensive biography of D. Rossetti, and edited the collected works of D. Rossetti and Christina Rossetti.
	www.gaple.com /articles/William_Michael_Rossetti (383 words)

	CliffsNotes::Frankenstein:Book Summary and Study Guide
		Five writers gathered in Switzerland during the summer of 1816: Mary Shelley, her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, Claire Clairmont, and John William Polidori, Byron’s friend and physician.
		Byron was working on his major poetic work “Childe Harold;” Percy Shelley was working on his poem “Mont Blanc;” John William Polidori began his The Vampyre; a Tale (1819); and Mary began work on her future novel, Frankenstein.
		Only Mary and Polidori, the least known writers, produced a full version of their ghost tales.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-112,pageNum-8.html (313 words)

	AfterDark Vampiros
		En una noche de 1816, recluidos por una tormenta en Villa Diodati, al lado del lago Leman, en Ginebra, Lord Byron, Polidori, Percy Shelley y su flamante esposa Mary, pasaron la noche leyendo historias de fantasmas y propusieron escribir sus propias historias.
		Mary Shelley y Polidori llevaron a cabo el desafío.
		El que eligiera la figura de un vampiro para descargar su reprimida animadversión hacia el poeta, sugiere que era así como Polidori vivía inconscientemente esa relación: con su personalidad vampirizada por la del otro.
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	Encyclopedia: John William Polidori (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	PETERS - RIZAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		After a psychiatric residency, he opened a psychiatric practice, and is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Tufts Medical School.
		J.W. Polidori, an exact (by year) contemporary of Keats, graduated with an M.D. degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1815, at the age of nineteen.
		The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori, 1816, relating to Byron, Shelley, etc. Norwood, Pennsylvania: Norwood Editions; 1978.
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