George Lord Gordon Byron

Manfred a Faustian noble is tortured by guilt over the death of his beloved Astarte.

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...