John William Polidori Ximenes Other Poems
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John William Polidori Ximenes Other Poems
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Author : John William Polidori
language : en
Publisher: Portable Poetry
Release Date : 2020-10-12
John William Polidori Ximenes Other Poems written by John William Polidori and has been published by Portable Poetry this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-12 with categories.
John William Polidori was born on 7th September 1795 in London to Gaetano Polidori, an Italian political émigré scholar, and Anna Maria Pierce, an English governess. He was the eldest of 8 children. From 1804 Polidori was a pupil at the recently formed Ampleforth College. In 1810 he proceeded to the University of Edinburgh, where he wrote a thesis on sleepwalking and received his degree as a doctor of medicine on 1st August 1815. He was 19. In 1816, Dr. Polidori was given the job of Byron's personal physician and accompanied him on a trip through Europe. The publisher John Murray offered Polidori £500 to keep a diary of their travels. At the Villa Diodati, Byron's rented villa at Lake Geneva in Switzerland, the pair met with Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary's stepsister, Claire Clairmont. One night in June, after the company had read aloud from a French collection of German horror tales, Byron suggested they each write a ghost story. There were to be two outstanding works from that evening; 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley and Polidori's 'The Vampyre' which would be the first published modern vampire story in English. Dismissed by Byron, Polidori traveled in Italy and then returned to England. His story, 'The Vampyre', was published in the April 1819 issue of New Monthly Magazine without his permission. Much to the annoyance of both Polidori and Byron it was the latter who was credited as author. Polidori also had published 'Ximenes, The Wreath & Other Poems' in 1819 and his long theological and sacred poem 'The Fall of the Angels' in 1821 as well as two plays, essays and his diary. Despite his youth Polidori was increasingly worn down by gambling debts and depression. John William Polidori died on 24th August 1821 at the age of only 25 in London. Although his death was recorded as death by natural causes, strong evidence asserts that it was suicide by means of cyanide.
Ximenes The Wreath
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Author : John William Polidori
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1819
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Ximenes The Wreath
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Author : John William Polidori
language : en
Publisher: Nabu Press
Release Date : 2014-02
Ximenes The Wreath written by John William Polidori and has been published by Nabu Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02 with categories.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Ximenes, The Wreath: And Other Poems John William Polidori Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819
John William Polidori The Fall Of The Angels A Sacred Poem
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Author : John William Polidori
language : en
Publisher: Portable Poetry
Release Date : 2020-10-13
John William Polidori The Fall Of The Angels A Sacred Poem written by John William Polidori and has been published by Portable Poetry this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-13 with categories.
John William Polidori was born on 7th September 1795 in London to Gaetano Polidori, an Italian political émigré scholar, and Anna Maria Pierce, an English governess. He was the eldest of 8 children. From 1804 Polidori was a pupil at the recently formed Ampleforth College. In 1810 he proceeded to the University of Edinburgh, where he wrote a thesis on sleepwalking and received his degree as a doctor of medicine on 1st August 1815. He was 19. In 1816, Dr. Polidori was given the job of Byron's personal physician and accompanied him on a trip through Europe. The publisher John Murray offered Polidori £500 to keep a diary of their travels. At the Villa Diodati, Byron's rented villa at Lake Geneva in Switzerland, the pair met with Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary's stepsister, Claire Clairmont. One night in June, after the company had read aloud from a French collection of German horror tales, Byron suggested they each write a ghost story. There were to be two outstanding works from that evening; 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley and Polidori's 'The Vampyre' which would be the first published modern vampire story in English. Dismissed by Byron, Polidori traveled in Italy and then returned to England. His story, 'The Vampyre', was published in the April 1819 issue of New Monthly Magazine without his permission. Much to the annoyance of both Polidori and Byron it was the latter who was credited as author. Polidori also had published 'Ximenes, The Wreath & Other Poems' in 1819 and his long theological and sacred poem 'The Fall of the Angels' in 1821 as well as two plays, essays and his diary. Despite his youth Polidori was increasingly worn down by gambling debts and depression. John William Polidori died on 24th August 1821 at the age of only 25 in London. Although his death was recorded as death by natural causes, strong evidence asserts that it was suicide by means of cyanide.
Ximenes The Wreath And Other Poems
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Author : John William Polidori
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09
Ximenes The Wreath And Other Poems written by John William Polidori and has been published by Theclassics.Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 edition. Excerpt: ... He who publishes must he aware, that the world will think, whatever apologies he may offer, that in his own opinion his work is worthy of public notice and approbation. It is therefore in vain for him to assert illness, youth, and a thousand other incapacities, as excuses for the want of heroic feeling in his epic, or point in his epigram.--Yet almost every preface forms but as it were the basket into which an author throws his substitutes for the talent which should have appeared in his work. I will not, however, occupy my reader's time in this way.--I acknowledge a by publication that my love either of fame or profit has induced me to flatter myself that what I write is worthy of his attention. Ambition has many ways of advancing towards the pinnaole, from which it hopes to catch fame by the wing, and chain her to its column, though it be even like that of the Ascetic in Thebais. It is the most assuming of all passions. Its appetite, like that of the furnace, indeed, increases with the fuel thrown in, which but raises a greater flame, requiring greater faggots for its continuance. There was a time, when poetry, contented in the sylvan shade, sought but to please.--Now, since even lords have become desirous of wreathing the bay around their coronet, poetry has dared more, --it has crouched into a footstool for ambition to tread upon while aiming at power.--She has sounded her lyre in the princes' hall, not in laughing merry strains, but in tones that roused the Epicure from his feast, the Cytherean from his couch. 111 She has uttered from the rocks of Ireland tones that have so awakened sympathy (long overpowered by intolerant bigotry) for the sufferings of warm-hearted brothers, that even Ministers amidst their revels, have started like..
Ximenes The Wreath
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Author : John William Polidori
language : en
Publisher: Scholar's Choice
Release Date : 2015-02-15
Ximenes The Wreath written by John William Polidori and has been published by Scholar's Choice this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-15 with categories.
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The Vampyre And Other Writings
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Author : John William Polidori
language : en
Publisher: Carcanet
Release Date : 2014-10-28
The Vampyre And Other Writings written by John William Polidori and has been published by Carcanet this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-28 with Fiction categories.
June 18. Began my ghost story after tea. Twelve o' clock, really began to talk ghostly. [Lord Byron] repeated some verses of Coleridge's Christabel, of the witch's breast; when silence ensued, and Shelley, suddenly shrieking and putting his hands to his head, ran out of the room with a candle. (from the Diary of Dr John William Polidori, 1816) So Polidori (1795-1821) records one of the most famous storytelling evenings in English literature, the stormy night at the Villa Diodati that was the source of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and his own tale The Vampyre, as well as his Gothic novel Ernestus Berchtold. Polidori's still-compelling works, included here in full, created figures of seductive evil that continue to exert a powerful hold over literature and popular culture. In addition, this collection makes available some of Polidori's fascinating lesser-known works such as his medical thesis on nightmares, his essay on the death penalty, his poetry and diary. Many of these have not been republished since the nineteenth century. Franklin Charles Bishop's introduction illuminates the context in which The Vampyre was written, This book, first published in 1993, collects Spark's essays on the Brontës, her selection of their letters and of Emily's poetry. Evident throughout are Spark's critical intelligence, dry wit, and refusal to sentimentalise - qualities that gave her own novels their particular appeal. At the same time, The Essence of the Brontës is Muriel Spark's tribute to the sisters whose talents placed them on a stage from where they could hypnotize their own generation and, even more, posterity.
Poor Polidori
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Author : David Lorne Macdonald
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Poor Polidori written by David Lorne Macdonald and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Macdonald offers a look at the Romantic period framed around the life of Polidori, doctor, novelist, and student of religion, the law, politics, and philosophy. He explains how Polidori fashioned his vampire after his employer, Lord Byron--the aristocrat, traveller, and seducer--a version that differs greatly from the vampire of folklore. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Palgrave Handbook Of Gothic Origins
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Author : Clive Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-01-01
The Palgrave Handbook Of Gothic Origins written by Clive Bloom and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-01 with Fiction categories.
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of research on the Gothic Revival. The Gothic Revival was based on emotion rather than reason and when Horace Walpole created Strawberry Hill House, a gleaming white castle on the banks of the Thames, he had to create new words to describe the experience of gothic lifestyle. Nevertheless, Walpole’s house produced nightmares and his book The Castle of Otranto was the first truly gothic novel, with supernatural, sensational and Shakespearean elements challenging the emergent fiction of social relationships. The novel’s themes of violence, tragedy, death, imprisonment, castle battlements, dungeons, fair maidens, secrets, ghosts and prophecies led to a new genre encompassing prose, theatre, poetry and painting, whilst opening up a whole world of imagination for entrepreneurial female writers such as Mary Shelley, Joanna Baillie and Ann Radcliffe, whose immensely popular books led to the intense inner landscapes of the Bronte sisters. Matthew Lewis’s The Monk created a new gothic: atheistic, decadent, perverse, necrophilic and hellish. The social upheaval of the French Revolution and the emergence of the Romantic movement with its more intense (and often) atheistic self-absorption led the gothic into darker corners of human experience with a greater emphasis on the inner life, hallucination, delusion, drug addiction, mental instability, perversion and death and the emerging science of psychology. The intensity of the German experience led to an emphasis on doubles and schizophrenic behaviour, ghosts, spirits, mesmerism, the occult and hell. This volume charts the origins of this major shift in social perceptions and completes a trilogy of Palgrave Handbooks on the Gothic—combined they provide an exhaustive survey of current research in Gothic studies, a go-to for students and researchers alike.
Album Verses And Romantic Literary Culture
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Author : Samantha Matthews
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-11
Album Verses And Romantic Literary Culture written by Samantha Matthews and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
'Will you write in my album?' Many Romantic poets were asked this question by women who collected contributions in their manuscript books. Those who obliged included Byron, Scott, Wordsworth, and Lamb, but also Felicia Hemans, Amelia Opie, and Sara Coleridge. Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture presents the first critical and cultural history of this forgotten phenomenon. It asks a series of questions. Where did 1820s 'albo-mania' come from, and why was it satirized as a women's 'mania'? What was the relation between visitors' books associated with great institutions and country houses, personal albums belonging to individuals, and the poetry written in both? What caused albums' re-gendering from earlier friendship books kept by male students and gentlemen on the Grand Tour to a 'feminized' practice identified mainly with young women? When albums were central to women's culture, why were so many published album poems by men? How did amateur and professional poets engage differently with albums? What does album culture's privileging of 'original poetry' have to say about attitudes towards creativity and poetic practice in the age of print? This volume recovers a distinctive subgenre of occasional poetry composed to be read in manuscript, with its own characteristic formal features, conventions, themes, and cultural significance. Unique albums examined include that kept at the Grande Chartreuse, those owned by Regency socialite Lady Sarah Jersey, and those kept by Lake poets' daughters. As Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture shows, album poetry reflects changing attitudes to identity, gender, class, politics, poetry, family dynamics, and social relations in the Romantic period.