A generous selection from the most charismatic and infamous of the Romantic poets, featuring a completely new introduction by Susan J Wolfson and Peter J Manning that sets the poems in the context of Byron's dramatic life and writing career.
Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan , beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece,...
'I mean to show things really as they are, not as they ought to be'. wrote Byron (1788-1824) in his comic masterpiece Don Juan, which follows the adventures of the hero across the Europe and near East which Byron knew so well, touching on the major...