Don Juan
Author: Lord Byron
Probably few subjects fitted Byron’s particular talents better than Don Juan.In this rambling, exuberant, conversational poem, the travels of Don Juan are used as a vehicle for some of the most lively and acute commentaries on human societies and behaviour in the language. The manner is what Goethe called ‘a cultured comic language’-a genre which he regarded as not possibl….Read More
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