Bibliograph

Don Juan, cantos I-V, a facsimile of the original drafts manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library : poems in the autograph of Lord Byron once in the possession of the Countess Guiccioli

Type

Label

Don Juan, cantos I-V, a facsimile of the original drafts manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library : poems in the autograph of Lord Byron once in the possession of the Countess Guiccioli

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Don Juan, cantos I-V

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Lord Byron, v. 2The Manuscripts of the younger romantics

Sub title

a facsimile of the original drafts manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library : poems in the autograph of Lord Byron once in the possession of the Countess Guiccioli

Summary

Often acknowledged as Byron's masterpiece, Don Juan is an epic poem, comprised of seventeen cantos, which follows an irreverent young man on his European adventures and reflects upon many of the experiences universal to man. From a forbidden love affair in Spain to exile in Italy, from being shipwrecked in Greece to slavery in Russia, Don Juan's adventures provide Byron with an exquisite framework of high drama to discuss and often mock Western societies with coarse humor and extreme satire. Interwoven in this innovative work are Byron's discussions on such topics as social convention, war, and, perhaps most significantly, human nature, with a vindication of all of natural man's gracious and ignoble impulses, in an elaborate and memorable criticism of modern human life

Target audience

adult

Classification

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