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When John William Polidori, then twenty years old and fresh from medical school, accepted George Gordon, Lord Byron's invitation to accompany him as personal physician on a tour of the Continent early...
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Byron kept closely in touch with his publisher John Murray during his travels. In 1817—nearly a year after Byron and Polidori had parted company—Murray wrote to Byron that "Polido...
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In the first full-length critical biography of Polidori, Macdonald acknowledges Polidori's marginal status as a literary figure, but suggests that Polidori's life and works, as well as h...
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In the following review, the anonymous critic briefly describes the plot and subject matter of Ernestus Berchtold.
If it be one of the highest faculties of invention to combine the natural with the ma...
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John William Polidori
Letter by George Gordon, Lord Byron
