&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Don_Juan_1st_edition_cover,_1819.png) Don Juan (1819) First Ed. | |
| Author | Lord Byron |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Epic poem and satire |
Publication date | 1819–1824 (final cantos published posthumously) |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Pages | 555 pages |
| Preceded by | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
| Followed by | Mazeppa |
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 ottava rima and presented in 16 cantos. Lord Byron derived the character of Don Juan from traditional Spanish folk legends; however, the story was very much his own.[2] Upon publication in 1819, cantos I and II were widely criticised as immoral because Byron had so freely ridiculed the social subjects and public figures of his time.[3] At his death in 1824, Lord Byron had completed 16 of 17 cantos, whilst canto XVII remained unfinished.
- ^ English 151-03 Byron's 'Don Juan' notes Archived 18 July 2006 at the Wayback Machine, Gregg A. Hecimovich
- ^ (Don Juan, canto xiv, stanza 99)
- ^ Coleridge, "Introduction", p. 000.