Don Juan
Author: Lord Byron
Desc: Probably few subjects fitted Byron's particular talents better than Don Juan. In this rambling exuberant conversational poem the travels of Don Juan are used as a vehicle for some of the most lively and acute commentaries on human societies and behaviour in the language. The manner is what Goethe called 'a cultured comic language'-a genre which he regarded as not possible in Geman and which he felt Byron managed superbly.