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Frontispiece illustration of a bust of Lord Byron in the 1824 edition of Don Juan. (Benbow publisher) Byron was a prolific writer, for whom "the composition of his great poem, Don Juan, was coextensive with a major part of his poetical life"; he wrote the first canto while resident in Italy in 1818, and the 17th canto in early 1823. [3]
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and is regarded as being among the greatest of British poets. [ 6 ]
The Shipwreck of Don Juan is an 1840 oil painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix. [1] It depicts a scene from Lord Byron epic poem Don Juan. [2] Don Juan and others are adrift in the Mediterranean in a ship's boat following a shipwreck. It was exhibited at the Salon of 1841.
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Of Byron's friends, Davies and Hobhouse were the two who saw him off at Dover as he left England in April 1816, [7] and Byron gave Davies a parcel and a message for Margaret Mercer Elphinstone. [2] The "Synod" group kept in touch with Byron, writing via Hobhouse in January 1819 to advise against the publication of Don Juan .
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The full title was Hours of Idleness; a Series of Poems Original and Translated, by George Gordon, Lord Byron, a Minor. It consisted of 187 pages with thirty-nine poems. Of these, nineteen came from the original Fugitive Pieces volume, while eight had first appeared in Poems on Various Occasions. Twelve were published for the first time.