England in 1819–20
A section of the preface to my Annotated Cantos I & II (with audio narration) planned for the bi-centenary of Don Juan in 2019. The first two cant...
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Texts and recordings of Byron
Matthew Arnold on Byron
Another section of the preface to my Annotated Cantos I & II (with audio narration) planned for the bi-centenary of Don Juan in 2019 The popularity of B...
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 dec...
Don Juan Cantos Annotated
TL;DR An up-dated draft of my “Annotated Don Juan” is available. It now provides notes and illustrations for Cantos I, III and IX. Get it here and read ...
Catching up… and an announcement
Visitors to this site who know some of Lord Byron’s early lyric and love poetry — perhaps encountered at school — are sometimes puzzled by his longest w...
An audio recording of Canto IX of Byron’s Don Juan
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...
Don Juan annotated — a work in progress
For some time I have been working, in desultory fashion, on an annotated version of Don Juan. You can download the current version from that link. Wou...
The British Library’s “Don Juan” collection
The BL has a number of Byron’s manuscripts and some early editions of the published Don Juan from the 1820s. Pages from some of them are on-line as image ...
An appreciation of Peter Cochran (1944–2105)
“…And Glory long has made the Sages smile; ‘Tis something, nothing, words, illusion, wind, Depending more upon the Historian’s Style Than on the name a per...
The sound and the sense of Don Juan
Sam. Johnson famously observed that only a blockhead would write for no money. He might also have said that only a fool tries to self-publish; a sad fool i...