Byron Bits 10: Gone with the Wind
Byron was not only out of his country and out of favour, self-exiled in Italy, but also out of his own time. Philosopically, he belonged to a world that was fas...
Byron was not only out of his country and out of favour, self-exiled in Italy, but also out of his own time. Philosopically, he belonged to a world that was fas...
Why, I wonder, does Byron, whose intellectual curiosity was enormous and who loved the opera, the theatre, drama — and dramatic individuals — make...
She was not old, nor young, nor at the yearsWhich certain people call a ‘certain Age,‘Which yet the most uncertain age appears… Lord Byron, Beppo xxii (181...
Byron's comic epic Don Juan is on the surface a boy's own adventure but it soon becomes apparent that it's not boys who are not driving the narrative.
Byron Bits are short talks on Lord Byron's greatest poem. BB5 and BB6 explore the penultimate episodes in the unfinished poem and ponder what point Byron was tr...
Byron Bits: short recorded talks on Lord Byron and his great, unfinished poem, Don Juan.
An annotated and narrated edition of Cantos I & II of Byron's Don Juan, celebrating 200 years since first publication. Download & enjoy.
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 + I...
If Don Juan is lots of fun, as I claim, why does death figure in it so frequently?
Here’s a recording — about 2‑years old — of Canto IX of Don Juan. The recording (MP3) is in three parts. It’s best to read along with the text of the po...