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…
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?
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.
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…
If Don Juan is lots of fun, as I claim, why does death figure in it so frequently?
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…
Why isn’t Don Juan more widely read? I examine three reasons in this series of posts and then suggest some remedies.
There is something rather odd about annotating poetry
You know, of course, that there’s a lot of pathetic rubbish that pretends to be a Byronic document, hoping to borrow a little of the popular lustre our author still enjoys. This 1949 film is…
John Murray’s recommendations to Byron deserve more respect as evidence of the publishing environment and not just of his own disposition. After all, he had “skin in the game”.