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Don Juan Cantos I & II, Bicentennial Edition
An annotated and narrated edition of Cantos I & II of Byron’s Don Juan, celebrating 200 years since first publication. Download & enjoy.
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The Comet and the Bomb
This article was originally intended as a draft of an introduction to the “Bicentennial” edition of Cantos I & II that I have now posted. I decided not to use it there but I want…
Byron’s uncle Fred the Caricaturist
Byron’s uncle Frederick George was a satirical cartoonist in the 1780s and early 1790s
The Venetian Cantos of Don Juan
Byron wrote Cantos I and II in Venice, amid the excesses of Carnivale in 1818 and 1819 — his excesses, at least — and just before he fell in love with the pretty, precocious, unhappily-married, 19-year-old, Teresa…
Précis of Cantos I and II of Don Juan
Cantos I & II of Don Juan are each about 14k words. I’m trying to make 140-word summaries. Surprisingly difficult when you know the text well.
Publishing poetry: Annotated Cantos I + II of Don Juan
This is tech‑y, ‘sausage factory’ stuff about the challenge of publishing poetry. You don’t need to know any of this to enjoy Don Juan and my notes on Byron’s jokes, jibes (and evasions). But, in…
What is in the Annotated Don Juan Cantos I + II?
In a couple of weeks I’ll be publishing my Annotated Cantos I + II to celebrate the 200th anniversary of their first publication in 1819. What can you expect to find in the PDF e‑book?
An announcement
To celebrate the bicentenary of the first publication of Byron’s “Don Juan” on 15 July 1819, I’ll be releasing an annotated and narrated version of Cantos I + II on 27 June, 2019.
The Narration of Don Juan
In brief: I’m preparing to publish (“free”) an annotated and narrated edition of Cantos I & II of Byrons’ Don Juan on the bicentenary of their first London publication this July. But “why narration”? Aren’t…
Death in Don Juan
If Don Juan is lots of fun, as I claim, why does death figure in it so frequently?
Don Juan: who needs it, who reads it?
In a previous article I lamented that Byron’s great comic poem Don Juan is not read as widely as it deserves. As the greatest comic poem in the language, Don Juan should have a much…