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Frontispiece illustration of a bust of Lord Byron in the 1824 edition of Don Juan. (Benbow publisher) Byron was a prolific writer, for whom "the composition of his great poem, Don Juan, was coextensive with a major part of his poetical life"; he wrote the first canto while resident in Italy in 1818, and the 17th canto in early 1823. [3]
Tirso de Molina's play was subsequently adapted into numerous plays and poems, of which the most famous include a 1665 play, Dom Juan, by Molière, a 1787 opera, Don Giovanni, with music by Mozart and a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte largely adapting Tirso de Molina's play, a satirical and epic poem, Don Juan, by Lord Byron, and Don Juan Tenorio ...
The full title was Hours of Idleness; a Series of Poems Original and Translated, by George Gordon, Lord Byron, a Minor. It consisted of 187 pages with thirty-nine poems. Of these, nineteen came from the original Fugitive Pieces volume, while eight had first appeared in Poems on Various Occasions. Twelve were published for the first time.
Pages in category "Poetry by Lord Byron" ... Don Juan (poem) The Dream (Byron poem) E. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers; Epitaph to a Dog; F. Fare Thee Well (poem) G.
Beppo: A Venetian Story is a lengthy poem by Lord Byron, [1] written in Venice in 1817. Beppo marks Byron's first attempt at writing using the Italian ottava rima metre, which emphasized satiric digression. It is the precursor to Byron's most famous and generally considered best poem, Don Juan. The poem contains 760 verses, divided into 95 stanzas.
Lord Byron read Frere's work and saw the potential of the form. He quickly produced Beppo, his first poem to use the form. Shortly after this, Byron began working on his Don Juan (1819–1824), probably the best-known English poem in ottava rima. Byron also used the form for The Vision of Judgment (1822).
Teresa, Contessa Guiccioli (1800–1873) was an Italian noblewoman and the married lover [2] of Lord Byron while he was living in Ravenna and writing the first five cantos of Don Juan. [3] She wrote the biographical account Lord Byron's Life in Italy. [4]
The first chapter features Pym's sloop named the Ariel, the name of a character once played by Poe's mother Eliza Poe, [34] and also the name of Percy Bysshe Shelley's boat, on which he died, originally named Don Juan in honor of Lord Byron. [44]