Search results
Don Juan ( Spanish: [doŋ ˈxwan] ), also known as Don Giovanni ( Italian ), is a legendary, fictional Spanish libertine who devotes his life to seducing women. The original version of the story of Don Juan appears in the 1630 play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra ( The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest) by Tirso de Molina.
Don Juan (1819) First Ed. In English literature, Don Juan, written from 1819 to 1824 by the English poet Lord Byron, is a satirical, epic poem that portrays the Spanish folk legend of Don Juan, not as a womaniser as historically portrayed, but as a victim easily seduced by women. [1] As genre literature, Don Juan is an epic poem, written in ...
- Lord Byron
- 555 pages
- 1819
- 1819–1824 (final cantos published posthumously)
Don Juan, fictitious character who is a symbol of libertinism.Originating in popular legend, he was first given literary personality in the tragic drama El burlador de Sevilla (1630; “The Seducer of Seville,” translated in The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest), attributed to the Spanish dramatist Tirso de Molina.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
People also ask
Who is Don Juan?
Who wrote Don Juan?
What was the first English version of Don Juan?
Where does Don Juan start?
Feb 16, 2021 · A literary analysis of Byron's long poem Don Juan, a response to the pessimism of life and the world. The poem is written in ottava rima, a form of Italian verse, and depicts the adventures of a young man who seduces women and challenges the rules of morality and logic. The analysis explores the themes, characters, style, and themes of the poem, as well as its historical and cultural context.
- When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter," And proved it—'twas no matter what he said: They say his system 'tis in vain to batter, Too subtle for the airiest human head;
- What a sublime discovery 'twas to make the. Universe universal egotism, That all's ideal—all ourselves: I'll stake the. World (be it what you will) that that's no schism.
- For ever and anon comes Indigestion. (Not the most "dainty Ariel") and perplexes. Our soarings with another sort of question: And that which after all my spirit vexes,
- If it be chance—or, if it be according. To the Old Text, still better: lest it should. Turn out so, we'll say nothing 'gainst the wording, As several people think such hazards rude.
6 days ago · Lord Byron (born January 22, 1788, London, England—died April 19, 1824, Missolonghi, Greece) was a British Romantic poet and satirist whose poetry and personality captured the imagination of Europe. Renowned as the “gloomy egoist” of his autobiographical poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812–18) in the 19th century, he is now more ...
Jun 6, 2007 · Read or download the classic poem by George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron, about the legendary lover Don Juan. Choose from various formats and languages, including EPUB, Kindle, and plain text.
