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10168071 No.10168071 [Reply] [Original]

You've read Don Juan, haven't you, /lit/?

>> No.10168074

>>10168071

No, but Manfred was pretty good.

>> No.10168086

>>10168074
You should move on to Don Juan if you like Byron so far. It's fucking delightful, Byron spends stanza after stanza satirizing everything under the sun and going on long digressions where he shit talks other poets, other countries, and even himself. It's one of the most amusing things I've ever read.

>> No.10169214

>>10168086
The narrative's entertaining too, and the conclusion (it doesn't actually conclude) brilliant. For the poetry squeamish, as easy to read as a novel. Worth taking up.

>> No.10169226

Yeah, I didn't really like it though.

>> No.10169272

yea it's one of byrons rare masterpieces

>> No.10169337

>>10169226
You were probably pronouncing Juan wrong (the Spanish way is wrong in this poem)

>> No.10170365

>>10169337
A lot of the pronunciations in the poem are deliberately wrong so that the rhymes work. It's one of the poem's running gags.