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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.
I would shatter. Gladly all matters down to stone or lead, Or adamant, to find the World a spirit, And wear my head, denying that I wear it. II. 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.
Flesch-Kincaid Level: 14. Approx. Reading Time: 10 hours and 36 minutes. Poetry. Don Juan. 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.
Poem Summary. Don Juan was born in Seville, Spain, the son of Don José, a member of the nobility, and Donna Inez, a woman of considerable learning. Juan's parents did not get along well with each other because Don José was interested in women rather than in knowledge and was unfaithful to Donna Inez. Donna Inez was on the point of suing her ...
Don Juan: Canto 01. (part I) I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one; Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan— We all have seen him, in the pantomime, Sent to the ...
poem by Byron. Learn about this topic in these articles: discussed in biography. In Lord Byron: Life and career. …would write his greatest poem, Don Juan, a satire in the form of a picaresque verse tale. The first two cantos of Don Juan were begun in 1818 and published in July 1819.
Don Juan. : Canto 1, Stanzas 217-221. By Lord Byron (George Gordon) 217. Ambition was my idol, which was broken. Before the shrines of Sorrow and of Pleasure; And the two last have left me many a token. O'er which reflection may be made at leisure: Now, like Friar Bacon's brazen head, I've spoken,
