Douglas D. Schumann Library & Learning Commons: Frankenstein: Texts and Contexts: The Literary Response to the Year without a Summer

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"Darkness" by Lord Byron (1816)
The text of the poem.
'Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus' (1818)
The texts of the 1818 and 1831 editions.
'The Vampyre' by John William Polidori (1819)
A digital version of the first edition.
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein and the Villa Diodati
Describes the circumstances surrounding the novel's creation.
Percy Shelley: "Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni"
His poem evoking the awful nature of the romantic sublime.
The Poet, the Physician and the Birth of the Modern Vampire
The story behind the writing of John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre' (1816).