Pullman has identified three major literary influences on His Dark Materials: the essay On the Marionette Theatre by Heinrich von Kleist, the works of William Blake, and, most important, John Milton's Paradise Lost, from which the trilogy derives its title. In his introduction, he adapts a famous description of Milton by Blake to quip that he (Pullman) "is of the Devil's party and does know it." -Wikipedia

Novelist Benjamin Markovits produced a trilogy about the life of Byron. Imposture (2007) looked at the poet from the point of view of his friend and doctor, John Polidori. -Wikipedia

Byron is depicted as the villain/antagonist in the novel Jane Bites Back written by Michael Thomas Ford, published by Ballantine Books, 2010. A novel based on the premise that Jane Austen and Lord Byron are vampires living in the modern day literary world. -Wikipedia

Byron appears as a character in Susanna Clarke's alternative history Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004). -Wikipedia

Wikipedia: “It depicts the arrest and execution in Naples of Luisa Sanfelice, who was accused of conspiring with the French and their supporters against Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies during the French Revolutionary War. Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton, who were in Naples at the time, also feature as characters.”

"great to teach. An excerpt: 'Had I known, in later years, I would be called a plagiarist, I would have taken careful notes of the whole creative onset and have Mary and Shelley sign them as witnesses, for at least the squelching of rumour.' Polidori-as-contemporary-subject makes good reading." —A. Berry

"In this book, Byron is really a vampire. Holland ingeniously incorporates elements of Byron's life and themes in his poetry to vampirism, but it seems an awful lot like other vampire novels in terms of structure and plot (sort of like Interview with the Vampire but about Byron)." —A Stein

"Published in Great Britain as The Vampyre." —J. Leys

"This delightful epistolary novel is a fictionalized account of the life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (whose 200th birthday is in 1992) and his circle of lovers and friends over the course of one year. Chernaik reconstructs their activities by using "lost" journal entries and letters from the four most important women in Shelley's life: Mary, Clare, his first wife Harriet Westbrook, and Mary's half-sister Fanny Godwin. The personalities of the four are consistent with what can be seen in letters, journals, and biographies of the principals (the most recent being Emily W.

Lindsley, Mar Flora. Marvelous Boy (Education of a Poet in Age of Reason (1979 sonnet sequence on Chatterton) -Melissa J. Sites and Neil Fraistat