SOURCE: "Dr. John William Polidori, Author of The Vampyre," in Imagining Romanticism: Essays on English and Australian Romanticisms, edited by Deirdre Coleman and Peter Otto, Locust Hill Press, 1992, pp. 85-110.
In the following essay, Barbour uses Polidori's The Vampyre to explore the figure of the vampire in the Romantic literary imagination.
