Byron Bits: short talks on Don Juan
Byron Bits: short recorded talks on Lord Byron and his great, unfinished poem, Don Juan.
Byron Bits: short recorded talks on Lord Byron and his great, unfinished poem, Don Juan.
Ok! That title is a cheap attempt at click-bait. Implausible, too. Byron hated “big fat” anything. He was obsessive about his weight… certainly neuroti...
Selections from the the illustrations,verse and audio of a new e‑book version of Byrons’ comic masterpiece, Don Juan”: available in the Apple iBooks store...
1 & 2 Bob Southey! You’re a poet, poet laureate, And representative of all the race. Although ’tis true that you turned out a Tory at Last, yours has ...
26 Don Jóse and the Donna Inez led For some time an unhappy sort of life, Wishing each other, not divorced, but dead. They lived respectably as man and wife...
90 Young Juan wandered by the glassy brooks Thinking unutterable things. He threw Himself at length within the leafy nooks Where the wild branch of the co...
99 A real husband always is suspicious, But still no less suspects in the wrong place, Jealous of someone who had no such wishes, Or pandering blindly...
115 And Julia sate with Juan, half embraced And half retiring from the glowing arm, Which trembled like the bosom where’twas placed. Yet still she must have ...
154 ‘And now, Hidalgo, now that you have thrown Doubt upon me, confusion over all, Pray have the courtesy to make it known Who is the man you search for? Ho...
183 None can say that this was not good advice; The only mischief was it came too late. Of all experience ‘tis the usual price, A sort of income tax laid on...