Vampire Poetry
The Vampire Encyclopedia, Bunson, Mathew, © Copyright
1993
Major contributions to vampire poetry.
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Date
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Work
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Poet
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1748
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Der Vampir
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Heinrich August Ossenfelder
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1773
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Lenore
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Gottfied August Bürger
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1797
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Die Braut von Korinth
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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1797
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"Christabel"
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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1800
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"Thalaba the Destroyer"
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Robert Southey
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1810
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"The Vampyre"
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John Stagg
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1813
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"The Giaour"
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Lord Byron
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1819
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La Belle Dame Sans Merci
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John Keats
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1820
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"Lamia"
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John Keats
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1833
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"The Vampire Bride"
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Henry Liddell
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1836
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La Morte Amoureuse
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Théophile Gautier
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1845
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"The Vampyre"
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James Clerk Maxwell
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1857
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Le Vampire
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Charles Baudelaire
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1857
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Les Metamorphoses du Vampire
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Charles Baudelaire
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1897
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"The Vampire"
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Rudyard Kipling
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Other Vampire Poems
"The Vampyre" by Vasile Alecsandri
"The Vampire" by Arthur Symons
"The Vampire" by Madison Cawein
"Le Belle Morte" by Conrad Aiken
"The Vampires Won't Vampire for Me" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Enter the Vampire" by Clement Wood
"Stephen's Vampire Poem" by James Joyce
"The Vampire: 1914" by Conrad Aiken
"Vampire" by Bertrande Harry Snell
"Oil and Blood" by William Butler Yeats
"To His Mistress, Dead and Darky Return'd" by Roger Johnson
"Vampyre" by Stephen Spera
"The Vampire's Love Song" by Margaret Keyes and Jeanne Youngson
These and other lesser-known works can be found in the collection The
Vampire in Verse (1985), edited by Steven Moore.
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