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Lord Byron's 'Don Juan'
Celebrating 2 Centuries of Byron's comic masterpiece

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Texts and record­ings of Byron

November 20, 2018 / 0 Comment

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...

November 14, 2018 / 0 Comment

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...

November 5, 2018 / 2 Comments

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...

March 25, 2018 / 0 Comment

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 ...

February 23, 2018 / 0 Comment

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...

February 19, 2018 / 2 Comments

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...

January 24, 2018 / 0 Comment

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...

May 26, 2015

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 ...

May 26, 2015 / 1 Comment

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...

May 24, 2015 / 0 Comment

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...

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