Lord Byron's Don Juan
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781178021226 (117802122X)
Publish date: August 30th 2010
Publisher: Nabu Press
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Literature,
Epic,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Classic Literature,
Drama,
19th Century,
Poetry,
English Literature,
Epic Poetry
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This epic mockery, Byron writWith excellent recourse to wit,passion, war, and sharp satires:Though by the end it tires.We follow our hero, quite Byronic,on adventures soaked ironic,If you thought you knew Don JuanFor Byron's hero is a now one.In Seville, with Julia loveAlight'd on his heart: a dove(...
Byron's famous verse-novel is kind of uneven, but when he's on form it's both moving and witty. My favorite sequences are near the beginning, when the beautiful Donna Julia has fallen in love with young Juan and is having qualms of conscience. First she decides that she can no longer continue to see...
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