Byron Bits 8: Juan & Older Women
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...
Dificile est propria communia dicere…
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.
Byron's uncle Frederick George was a satirical cartoonist in the 1780s and early 1790s
Byron wrote Cantos I and II in Venice, amid the excesses of Carnivale in 1818 and 1819 — his excesses, at least — and just before he fell in love...
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 fir...
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 languag...
Why isn't Don Juan more widely read? I examine three reasons in this series of posts and then suggest some remedies.