Don Juan, Canto 1

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Don Juan is a comical poem from the mythical story of Don Juan, which Lord Byron overturns depicting Juan not as a philanderer but as a man simply ensnared by women. It is a deviation on the epic kind. The poet denoted it an “Epic Satire”. He composed 16 cantos, and the 17th canto was left undone before he died in 1824. He held that he had no concepts as to what would occur in the succeeding cantos as he drafted his work.

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS, simply called as Lord Byron, was an English poet, peer, statesman, and a key personage in the Romantic movement. Some of his most popular writings are the long narrative poems, Don Juan and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, and the brief harmonious poem, She Walks in Beauty.

Lord Byron is indeed among the best English poets and continues to be largely read and inspirational. He journeyed far around Europe, particularly in Italy, where he resided for seven years with the striving poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. In the last years of his short lived life, he participated in the Greek War of Independence battling the Ottoman Empire, for which Greeks respect him as a national hero.

He died when he was just 36 years old due to a fever gotten while in Missolonghi. Frequently depicted as the greatly extravagant and disreputable of the major Romantics, he was both praised and chastised in life for his highborn extravagances, such as big loans, several romantic relationships with men and women, also gossips of an immoral affair with his half-sister, and his banishment in his own free will.

He also begot Ada, Countess of Lovelace, whose story on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine is regarded as a starting record in the subject of computer science, and Allegra Byron, who died when she was young and perhaps, Elizabeth Medora Leigh, an illegitimate child.
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