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Don Juan
George Byron
出版CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015-02-08
主題Poetry / GeneralPoetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshPoetry / EpicPoetry / Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica
ISBN150789631X9781507896310
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8VBbjgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"All who joy would win
Must share it -- Happiness was born a twin."
--- George Gordon Byron, Don Juan

Don Juan is a satiric poem by Lord Byron, based on the legend of Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womaniser but as someone easily seduced by women. It is a variation on the epic form. Byron himself called it an "Epic Satire" (Don Juan, c. xiv, st. 99). Byron completed 16 cantos, leaving an unfinished 17th canto before his death in 1824. Byron claimed he had no ideas in his mind as to what would happen in subsequent cantos as he wrote his work.

When the first two cantos were published anonymously in 1819, the poem was criticised for its 'immoral content', though it was also immensely popular.