...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Don Juan by George Byron , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Edit... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Don Juan by George Byron , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Haz... ...iversity’s Electronic Classics Series. Cover design: Jim Manis; portrait of Byron from a painting by Thomas Philips, 1814 Copyright © 1999 The Pennsy... ...vania State University is an equal opportunity University. 1821 DON JUAN by George Byron DEDICATION BOB SOUTHEY! You ‘re a poet — Poet laureate, ... ...tate University is an equal opportunity University. 1821 DON JUAN by George Byron DEDICATION BOB SOUTHEY! You ‘re a poet — Poet laureate, And r... ... he who understands it would be able To add a story to the Tower of Babel. Byron’s Don Juan “Dedication” 3 You — Gentlemen! by dint of long se... ...not loathe the Sire to laud the Son, But closed the tyrant hater he begun. Byron’s Don Juan “Dedication” 4 Think’st thou, could he— the blind ... ...blow, And would not brook at all this sort of thing In my hot youth—when George the Third was King. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto One” 41 But now ... ... as thick as most skulls born as yet; Two batteries, cap a pie, as our St. George, Case mated one, and t’ other ‘a barbette,’ Of Danube’s bank...

...In this moving poem, Byron recounts the final, desperate resistance of the Venetians on the day the Ottoman army stormed Acrocorinth: revealing the closing scenes of the conflict through the eyes of Lanciotto - a Venetian renegade fighting for th...