translated by Val Warner
William Cowper Selected Poems
edited by Nick Rhodes
Gabriele d’Annunzio Halcyon
translated by J.G. Nichols
John Donne Selected Letters
edited by P.M. Oliver
William Dunbar Selected Poems
edited by Harriet Harvey Wood
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea Selected Poems
edited by Denys Thompson
Ford Madox Ford Selected Poems
edited by Max Saunders
John Gay Selected Poems
edited by Marcus Walsh
Oliver Goldsmith Selected Writings
edited by John Lucas
Robert Herrick Selected Poems
edited by David Jesson-Dibley
Victor Hugo Selected Poetry
in French and English
translated by Steven Monte
T.E. Hulme Selected Writings
edited by Patrick McGuinness
Leigh Hunt Selected Writings
edited by David Jesson Dibley
Wyndham Lewis Collected Poems and Plays
edited by Alan Munton
edited by J.E. Morpurgo
Lucretius De Rerum Natura: The Poem on Nature
translated by C.H. Sisson
John Lyly Selected Prose and Dramatic Work
edited by Leah Scragg
Ben Jonson Epigrams and The Forest
edited by Richard Dutton
Giacomo Leopardi The Canti
with a selection of his prose
translated by J.G. Nichols
Stéphane Mallarmé For Anatole’s Tomb
in French and English
translated by Patrick McGuinness
Andrew Marvell Selected Poems
edited by Bill Hutchings
Charlotte Mew Collected Poems and Selected Prose
edited by Val Warner
Michelangelo Sonnets
translated by Elizabeth Jennings, introduction by Michael Ayrton
William Morris Selected Poems
edited by Peter Faulkner
John Henry Newman Selected Writings to 1845
edited by Albert Radcliffe
Ovid Amores
translated by Tom Bishop
Fernando Pessoa A Centenary Pessoa
edited by Eugenio Lisboa and L.C. Taylor, introduction by Octavio Paz
translated by J.G. Nichols
Edgar Allan Poe Poems and Essays on Poetry
edited by C.H. Sisson
Restoration Bawdy
edited by John Adlard
Rainer Maria Rilke Sonnets to Orpheus and Letters to a Young Poet
translated by Stephen Cohn
Christina Rossetti Selected Poems
edited by C.H. Sisson
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Selected Poems and Translations
edited by Clive Wilmer
Sir Walter Scott Selected Poems
edited by James Reed
Sir Philip Sidney Selected Writings
edited by Richard Dutton
John Skelton Selected Poems
edited by Gerald Hammond
Charlotte Smith Selected Poems
edited by Judith Willson
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Selected Poems
edited by Dennis Keene
Algernon Charles Swinburne Selected Poems
edited by L.M. Findlay
Arthur Symons Selected Writings
edited by Roger Holdsworth
William Tyndale Selected Writings
edited by David Daniell
edited by Malcolm Hicks
William Wordsworth The Earliest Poems
edited by Duncan Wu
Sir Thomas Wyatt Selected Poems
edited by Hardiman Scott
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About the Author
JOHN WILLIAM POLIDORI was born in 1795 into a distinguished Anglo-Italian family. He was educated at Ampleforth College and the University of Edinburgh, where in 1815 he was awarded a degree of doctor of medicine, at the age of nineteen. In 1816 Polidori entered Lord Byron’s service as his personal physician, accompanying him on his travels through Europe. It was while staying with Mary Wollstonecraft, Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont at Byron’s rented house by Lake Geneva, that Polidori began to write his most famous work, The Vampyre. The novel was published in 1819, originally attributed to Byron. Polidori and Byron parted company later in 1816; for a time Polidori continued to travel through Europe alone, before returning to England in 1817. He settled in Norwich, where for some years he practised as a doctor and pursued his literary career, until a serious accident damaged his health and made it impossible for him to work. On 21 August 1821 he died at the family home in London after accidentally taking poison.
FRANKLIN CHARLES BISHOP is a writer and journalist, and tutor for the University of Nottingham Continuing Education Department. He is the author of a life of Polidori and numerous articles on the Gothic.
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