A very nice selection of Byron's work that, while I initially bought it only for Don Juan, will furnish me with many more happy hours of reading than I had anticipated. The short introduction is really quite useful and well written; revealing more in a couple of paragraphs than many of the longer essays in the Cambridge Companion to Byron do in their entirety. Don Juan is still, at its best, a real delight to read. Recommended.
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Basically i am writing this to contradict another review, the one called 'universal?' and dated january 1999. ive just finished studying this poem for my a levels, and i can safely say that absolutely everything in this poem is a parody or analogy about something or someone else, which is what makes it the masterpeice that it is. Juan's mother Inez is used by Byron to satirise both his own mother and his wife Annabella Milbanke. Juan's lover Haidee's father Lambro is used as a device to demonstrate the stifling effect society has on love etc etc. EVERYTHING in it is meant to mock something else. Byron writes little snippets in the style of Wordsworth then scoffs as at them to show how easy it is (for him anyway) to write that sort of poetry, and ... Read More:
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Basically i am writing this to contradict another review, the one called 'universal?' and dated january 1999. ive just finished studying this poem for my a levels, and i can safely say that absolutely everything in this poem is a parody or analogy about something or someone else, which is what makes it the masterpeice that it is. Juan's mother Inez is used by Byron to satirise both his own mother and his wife Annabella Milbanke. Juan's lover Haidee's father Lambro is used as a device to demonstrate the stifling effect society has on love etc etc. EVERYTHING in it is meant to mock something else. Byron writes little snippets in the style of Wordsworth then scoffs as at them to show how easy it is (for him anyway) to write that sort of poetry, and ... Read More:
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Basically i am writing this to contradict another review, the one called 'universal?' and dated january 1999. ive just finished studying this poem for my a levels, and i can safely say that absolutely everything in this poem is a parody or analogy about something or someone else, which is what makes it the masterpeice that it is. Juan's mother Inez is used by Byron to satirise both his own mother and his wife Annabella Milbanke. Juan's lover Haidee's father Lambro is used as a device to demonstrate the stifling effect society has on love etc etc. EVERYTHING in it is meant to mock something else. Byron writes little snippets in the style of Wordsworth then scoffs as at them to show how easy it is (for him anyway) to write that sort of poetry, and ... Read More:
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A very nice selection of Byron's work that, while I initially bought it only for Don Juan, will furnish me with many more happy hours of reading than I had anticipated. The short introduction is really quite useful and well written; revealing more in a couple of paragraphs than many of the longer essays in the Cambridge Companion to Byron do in their entirety. Don Juan is still, at its best, a real delight to read. Recommended.
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A very nice selection of Byron's work that, while I initially bought it only for Don Juan, will furnish me with many more happy hours of reading than I had anticipated. The short introduction is really quite useful and well written; revealing more in a couple of paragraphs than many of the longer essays in the Cambridge Companion to Byron do in their entirety. Don Juan is still, at its best, a real delight to read. Recommended.
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A very nice selection of Byron's work that, while I initially bought it only for Don Juan, will furnish me with many more happy hours of reading than I had anticipated. The short introduction is really quite useful and well written; revealing more in a couple of paragraphs than many of the longer essays in the Cambridge Companion to Byron do in their entirety. Don Juan is still, at its best, a real delight to read. Recommended.
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A very nice selection of Byron's work that, while I initially bought it only for Don Juan, will furnish me with many more happy hours of reading than I had anticipated. The short introduction is really quite useful and well written; revealing more in a couple of paragraphs than many of the longer essays in the Cambridge Companion to Byron do in their entirety. Don Juan is still, at its best, a real delight to read. Recommended.
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A very nice selection of Byron's work that, while I initially bought it only for Don Juan, will furnish me with many more happy hours of reading than I had anticipated. The short introduction is really quite useful and well written; revealing more in a couple of paragraphs than many of the longer essays in the Cambridge Companion to Byron do in their entirety. Don Juan is still, at its best, a real delight to read. Recommended.
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A very nice selection of Byron's work that, while I initially bought it only for Don Juan, will furnish me with many more happy hours of reading than I had anticipated. The short introduction is really quite useful and well written; revealing more in a couple of paragraphs than many of the longer essays in the Cambridge Companion to Byron do in their entirety. Don Juan is still, at its best, a real delight to read. Recommended.
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