Byron: Don Juan

Anne Barton places Don Juan within the context of Byron's life and reading.

Anne Barton (Author)

9780521338417, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 14 August 2008

128 pages, 1 table
22.5 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm, 0.2 kg

In her introduction to this brilliant and outrageous literary landmark, Anne Barton places Don Juan within the context of Byron's life and reading, and offers an interpretation of the poem which demonstrates its underlying coherence and artistic integrity, despite Byron's mischievous protestations to the contrary. A long chapter on the reception of the poem considers some of the attempts to imitate or continue it, using them to define what is fundamental to Byron's own handling of the Don Juan legend.

Part I. The Making of Don Juan
Part II. Style and Form
Part III. The Poem
Part IV. The Afterlife of Don Juan.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC]