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Jun 6, 2007 · Don Juan Credits: David Widger Language: English: LoC Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature: Subject: Juan, Don (Legendary character) -- Poetry Category: Text: EBook-No. 21700: Release Date: Jun 6, 2007: Most Recently Updated: Aug 8, 2021: Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA. Downloads: 5646 downloads in the last 30 days.
Don Juan: Canto 11. Don Juan. : Canto 11. And yet who can believe it! I would shatter. And wear my head, denying that I wear it. World (be it what you will) that that's no schism. Of the Truth's rays, spoil not my draught of spirit! Heaven's brandy, though our brain can hardly bear it.
Lord Byron’s verse novel Don Juan (1819–24), sardonic and casual, combined the colloquialism of medieval light verse with a sophistication that inspired a number of imitations. Read More.
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May 29, 2018 · Don Juan (dŏn wän, jōō´ən, Span. dōn hwän), legendary profligate. He has a counterpart in the legends of many peoples, but the Spanish version of the great libertine has become the most universal.
Lord George Gordon Byron. Don Juan is a unique approach to the already popular legend of the philandering womanizer immortalized in literary and operatic works. Byron’s Don Juan, the name comically anglicized to rhyme with “new one” and “true one,” is a passive character, in many ways a victim of predatory women, and more of a ...
Apr 19, 2015 · Summary. Don Juan is Byron’s great satire, – his great epic – unfinished at his death, and condemned as immoral in his lifetime. It was also immensely popular. Byron published the first two cantos anonymously.
Don Juan, Op. 20, tone poem for orchestra by German composer Richard Strauss, first performed in Weimar on November 11, 1889. One of the earliest tone poems by Strauss, Don Juan tells of the legendary Spanish libertine Don Juan, who by then already had appeared in works by Mozart and other.
