Romantic poets in particular saw great appeal in vampirism as a combination of many popular motifs of the epoch. The first section of this paper explores how the Romantic depiction of vampirism in poems and ballads inspired John William Polidori's novella The Vampyre (1819), which is often considered the first real vampire narrative, the implications of the term vampirism in the early stage of vampire fiction, and how certain literary conventions led to the establishment of the Dracula
Romantic poets in particular saw great appeal in vampirism as a combination of many popular motifs of the epoch. The first section of this paper explores how the Romantic depiction of vampirism in poems and ballads inspired John William Polidori's novella The Vampyre (1819), which is often considered the first real vampire narrative, the implications of the term vampirism in the early stage of vampire fiction, and how certain literary conventions led to the establishment of the Dracula