George Gordon Byron

It was a dark and stormy night. Lord Byron Mary Godwin (who would soon become Mary Shelley) Percy Bysshe Shelley and John William Polidori were sheltering inside a Swiss castle reading ghost stories to one another to pass the time. Noting that everyone present had literary aspirations Byron chall...

Don Juan is Lord Byron's satirical masterpiece. It was based on the legend of Don Juan which Byron reverses portraying Juan not as a womanizer but as a man easily seduced by women. It is a variation on the epic form. Byron himself called it Epic Satire. Modern critics consider it Byron's masterpi...