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Love affairs, literary rivalries, and the supernatural collide in an inspired journey to Lake Geneva, where Byron, the Shelleys, and John Polidori come together to create literature’s greatest monsters
In the spring of 1816, Lord Byron was the greatest poet of his generation and the most famous man in Britain, but his personal life was about to erupt. Fleeing his celebrity, notoriety, and debts, he sought refuge in Europe, taking his young doctor with him. As an inexperienced medic with literary aspirations of his own, Doctor John Polidori could not believe his luck.That summer another literary star also arrived in Geneva. With Percy Bysshe Shelley came his lover, Mary, and her step-sister, Claire Clairmont. For the next three months, this party of young bohemians shared their lives, charged with sexual and artistic tensions. It was a period of extraordinary creativity: Mary Shelley started writing Frankenstein, the gothic masterpiece of Romantic fiction; Byron completed ChildeHarold’s Pilgrimage, his epic poem; and Polidori would begin The Vampyre, the first great vampire novel.
It was also a time of remarkable drama and emotional turmoil. For Byron and the Shelleys, their stay by the lake would serve to immortalize them in the annals of literary history. But for Claire and Polidori, the Swiss sojourn would scar them forever. 16 pages of color and B&W photographs
- Sales Rank: #962591 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.80" h x 1.30" w x 5.80" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 464 pages
Review
“An excellent work of critical biography. Stott’s book reads with crispness and frequent deadpan, offering the pleasures of fiction without relying on unseemly liberties in the scholarship.” (Pacific Standard)
“Engaging reading, dotted with amusing literary anecdotes and keen observations. Stott’s ruminations about fame, portrayed here as a candle around which the writers circle like moths and burn themselves, are illuminating.” (The Dallas Morning News)
“The Poet and the Vampyre reads a little like a period noir, full of atmospheric carriage rides, aggrieved letters, and deep personal miseries.” (The Boston Globe)
“Fascinating. Stott’s book draws a hypnotic picture of celebrity. In revealing the humanity of these 19th-century icons, without ever needing to draw explicit parallels with today’s popular artists, the book makes a valuable contribution to an understanding of art and its costs.” (Los Angeles Review of Books)
“A lusty, lively literary history packed from intimate details and personal anecdotes from a rich array of sources.” (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
“McConnell Stott is as thorough and sympathetic a biographer as the young doctor could want. Fluidly and evocatively presented.” (Open Letters Monthly)
“Fascinating reading even two centuries later.” (Booklist)
“Impressive. As Stott reveals in this engrossing history, lust, greed and the unquenchable thirst for fame were forces of evil that imbued the age of Romanticism with grief.” (Kirkus (starred review))
“A thrilling tale about the pursuit of love, sex, and fame. Provides a dual portrait of the Romantic spirit during its most intense period of creativity―and uncovers the emotional devastation that was left in its wake.” (Amanda Foreman, New York Times bestselling author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire)
“Hard to put down.” (Providence Journal)
“A learned, constantly entertaining and deliciously gossipy account of the erotic and personal entanglements that led up to, and away from, the most famous wet evening in Romantic literature. This excellent book offers an enthralling, if ultimately tragic, soap opera and lots of fascinating information.” (Michael Dirda - The Washington Post)
“A rip-roaring book about Lord Byron and his coterie. Extremely well researched (with 86 pages of notes) and beautifully written, Stott’s book is a delight and a must-read for anyone interested in Lord Byron or vampires.” (The Sun News Miami)
“Fluid, informative and stylish, offering uncommon insight.” (The New York Times Book Review)
“The book successfully draws attention to two figures―Polidori and Clairmont―who have been overshadowed by their more illustrious companions.” (Publishers Weekly)
“Brilliant. As a portrait of London life in all its mutinous and anarchic variety this book would be hard to beat.” (The Spectator, on 'The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi')
“Andrew McConnell Stott widens Byron’s spotlight to include two people whose lives he radically altered in the short time he knew them. Entertaining and engaging.” (Pittsburg Post-Gazette)
“A fast-paced rumbustious biography. Stott evokes both the dizzying excitement and the harshness of theatrical life.” (The Observer, on 'The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi')
About the Author
Andrew McConnell Stott is the author of The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi, which won the Royal Society of Literature Prize, the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography, and was a Guardian Best Book of the Year. The Poet and the Vampyre is his first book to be published in America. In 2011, Stott was named a Fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. He is a Professor of English at the University of Buffalo, SUNY. Please visit his website at www.andrewmcconnellstott.com.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Old Tale Well Told (but misleading subtitle)
By Charlus
Clearly the title of this book was created by the publisher: use the words vampire, curse, monster, et al. to sell it. And for that reason, it may have set up inappropriate expectations that lead to the negative reviews you read here. In fact, the book has little to do with any of this. The Washington Post reviewer said the book would more accurately be called "The Doctor and the Sister-In-Law" and I would agree.
What it is in reality, is a group history of the intertwined lives of Byron, Shelley and their circle centered around a summer of cohabitation in 1816, both the before and after. It is a fascinating story of tragedy, betrayal, disappointment, suicides and deaths, all involving supremely talented and/or interesting (though not particularly likable) people. As a prior reviewer mentions, it is very well-researched with one fourth of the text relegated to documentation. But it reads like a novel, criss-crossing between the various players of this tragic tale.
The creation of the novel Frankenstein has a few page references and Polidori's The Vampyre takes up a bit of one chapter, but essentially both works are minor events in the melodramatic and yes, Romantic, lives of the subjects of this extremely readable biographical history: placing the events involving Byron, Shelley, Mary Shelley, John Polidori and Claire Clairmont in relation to each other as well as the events affecting Europe at that time.
7 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
THE POET & THE VAMPYRE: Pointless & Vapid
By Richard Masloski
When I came across this book in my local bookstore, I was thrilled! I have always been fascinated by the Summer of 1816 that gave birth to FRANKENSTEIN (and THE VAMPYRE). The opening scene betwixt Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley in the classic THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN gripped me as a child and still hasn't let go, all these years later. So seeing the book - and especially at this imminent Halloween-time of year - with its captivating title - THE POET AND THE VAMPYRE - I drew excitedly closer to the volume on the New Releases bookstore table. I then read with a further thrill its thrilling and promissory subtitle: The Curse of Byron and the Birth of Literature's Greatest Monsters. All this then alchemically mixed with the truly Gothic cover image of a fog-enshrouded precipice that subliminally suggested Frankenstein's phallic laboratory in the Universal films wherein were birthed the Monster and his mistake-of-a-mate, well, with all this going for it just by looking at the cover, this looked to be the book I had always hoped for - a deep, penetrating, poetic look at, well, all the things promised via title, subtitle and haunted, haunting cover.
Alas, I am sorry to say that I haven't been this disappointed in a book in quite some time. The book itself, writ by Professor of English Andrew McConnell Stott, is in NO way commensurate with its cover! I will even go so far as to say that the disparity between book and cover is clear evidence of the all-too-prevalent ruse known as 'false advertising.'
As a prior reviewer noted, way too much of the tedious text is filled with all sorts of minutiae hardly germane to the promised purpose of the book. This would not matter so much as the Devil is, after all, in the details. But the details I was hoping for are just not there! What is peculiar and perverse about Stott's book is that it seems to willfully, wantonly evade the book's seemingly avowed purpose - and that is taking its readers into the sanctum sanctorum to witness the actual 'Birth of Literature's Greatest Monsters.' The actual title itself is even problematic: nothing is really revealed about the dynamic between the Poet - Byron, I assume - and the Vampyre - Dr. Polidori's novella which had its genesis one summer night at the Villa Diodati, along with Mary Shelley's macabre masterwork. Perhaps Stott's recitation of the intertwining stories of Byron and his brooding bunch is meant to somehow say that Byron, himself, was the Vampyre in all of this. It isn't really made clear - nor is 'The Curse of Byron' adequately addressed or even defined. One could say that practically everyone was cursed in those Gothic, Romantic Days - even so much as to willingly allow the notion of a Curse to ever take hold and flourish in the first place. Why pick on poor Byron!
Hoping the door to the delivery rooms of both Frankenstein's Monster and Dracula's Vampyre forebear would be wide open to us herein, we are permitted just a peak in followed by a fast-shutting door in our faces instead. There is no sense conveyed within these pages whatsoever of the conception, birth and nursing by Mary Shelley of her Great Monster. Nor is there any genuine genealogical examination of how Polidori's Vampyre led to the other of Literature's Greatest Monster - and that would be Count Dracula. Is there any insight as to why Mary wrote what she did, or how her husband Percy truly assisted her - or the possibility of his having actually ghost-written the book, is this looked at at all? What did Byron think of the autographed copy he'd received? How did Mary's account of the novel's genesis change over the years as evidenced in her varying introductions to the book? This is the minutiae that ultimately matters! Fine, it is interesting to read about how the Simplon Pass came to be - but more so serve us stuff central to the book's title and subtitle and at least attempt to paint pictures in words to match the spooky, spectacular cover image. What is herein is a tale told many times before and in some very better ways. Even the illustrations within seem to purposefully diverge from what the cover and book title seemingly promise. I was left, after reading through this dry, academic recitation of people and places, wondering, in all honestly, why the book was even written in the first place.
If only the contents were truly wed to the cover!
7 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Bryron slept here...and here...and here...and...
By Hennessey Gal
Thrilling? Inspired? Please. Did the reviewers actually READ this book?
Andrew McConnell Stott is a reader. He must have read every jot of writing in the copious letters, journals, and other literaria produced by the Fulsome Five in this narrative. He insists on taking us through every village, and down every twisting path and pigtrail Byron and his physician, John Polidori traverse traveling to Geneva where they join Percy Shelley, his mistress Mary and her step-sister Claire Clairmont, engage in literary and sexual dalliances and then travel on. An on. A little less tramping would make the book much more palatable.
I've had the theory that Lord Byron was the author of Frankenstein, considering the sleeping-around that was going on during that Geneva adventure when Percy Byshe Shelley and Mary, Claire Godwin, Lord Byron, and John Polidori engaged in the spook-tale competition that resulted in the creation of both Frankenstein and the Vampyre, but this book lays that suspicion to rest. Mary was the only one of the five to continue her work over a period of time long after the group had gone apart. Unfortunately, that is the pivotal event upon which the story hangs, but it comes and goes with a yawn before the book is half over and then they are all off tramping across Europe again, seeing the sights and paying the price for their liaisons.
The book is informative and would be a refreshing read for an underclass English Lit major adept at skipping all the scenery. It could have been a really interesting and unique travel book, if that had been the emphasis, with juicy anecdotes sprinkled throughout. It could have been a much tighter psychological exploration, had the interminable journeys been more carefully chosen for inclusion. But it takes on the character of Polidori as it progresses, harem-scarem through the narrative, a little full of itself, and totally ineffectual, even as it informs.
I've read heavy scholarly tomes in less time and with less effort, but still feel I've gained much insight into the writers and their times. The book is not a waste, but the reader must be determined to stay with it to gain benefit.
The man needed an editor.
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