A satirical epic recasting the legendary seducer as an innocent swept through the follies of Europe.
Books mentioned in Don Juan (15)
The Excursion by William Wordsworth: “And Wordsworth in a rather long Excursion (I think the quarto holds five hundred pages) Has given a sample from the vasty version Of his new system to perplex the sages.”
Iliad by Homer: “His reverend tutors had at times a tussle, And for their AEneids, Iliads, and Odysseys, Were forced to make an odd sort! of apology, For Donna Inez dreaded the Mythology.”
The Odyssey by Homer: “His reverend tutors had at times a tussle, And for their AEneids, Iliads, and Odysseys, Were forced to make an odd sort! of apology, For Donna Inez dreaded the Mythology.”
The Aeneid by Virgil: “His reverend tutors had at times a tussle, And for their AEneids, Iliads, and Odysseys, Were forced to make an odd sort! of apology, For Donna Inez dreaded the Mythology.”
The Confessions by Augustine of Hippo: “But how faith is acquired, and then ensured, So well not one of the aforesaid paints As Saint Augustine in his fine Confessions, Which make the reader envy his transgressions.”
Coelebs in Search of a Wife by Hannah More: “Miss Edgeworth's novels stepping from their covers, Or Mrs. Trimmer's books on education, Or 'Coelebs' Wife' set out in quest of lovers,”
Narrative of the Honourable John Byron by John Byron: “Had suffer'd more--his hardships were comparative To those related in my grand-dad's 'Narrative.'”
Peter Bell by William Wordsworth: “'Pedlars,' and 'Boats,' and 'Waggons!' Oh! ye shades Of Pope and Dryden, are we come to this? … The 'little boatman' and his 'Peter Bell' Can sneer at him who drew 'Achitophel'!”
The Waggoner by William Wordsworth: “We learn from Horace, 'Homer sometimes sleeps;' We feel without him, Wordsworth sometimes wakes,-- To show with what complacency he creeps, With his dear 'Waggoners,' around his lakes.”
Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden: “The 'little boatman' and his 'Peter Bell' Can sneer at him who drew 'Achitophel'!”
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: “Had not Cervantes, in that too true tale Of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail. Of all tales 't is the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile”
Hercules Furens by Seneca: “That prodigy, Miss Araminta Smith (Who at sixteen translated 'Hercules Furens' Into as furious English), with her best look,”
The New Bath Guide by Christopher Anstey: “Though once she was seen reading the 'Bath Guide,' And 'Hayley's Triumphs,' which she deem'd pathetic,”
The Triumphs of Temper by William Hayley: “Though once she was seen reading the 'Bath Guide,' And 'Hayley's Triumphs,' which she deem'd pathetic,”
Books that mention Don Juan (8)
The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie & J. Berg Esenwein: “And rash enthusiasm in good society Were nothing but a moral inebriety. --BYRON, _Don Juan_.”
Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope: “Madame Max was as steady in her seat and almost as slow as the mounted ghost in _Don Juan_.”
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon: “…French pamphlet on the cavalry sword-exercise; an odd volume of Tom Jones with one half of its stiff leather cover hanging to it by a thread; Byron's Don Juan, printed in a murderous type, which must have been invented for the special advantage of oculists and opticians; and a fat book in a faded…”
Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt: “'Frederica assumes he votes Tory—it is part of his illicit attraction, like Don Juan, like Byron.'”
My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff: “I was close enough to the glass now to make out some of the titles: a beautiful, ornate copy of Don Juan; an oversized edition of Peter Pan with what appeared to be the original illustrations...”
Peter Ibbetson by George du Maurier: “the shipwreck from "Don Juan," of which we never tired, and the "Giaour,"”
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth: “As does Thackeray’s father and one of Dickens’s sons, and the original for Byron’s Don Juan,’ said Amit, with a proper Calcuttan pride.”
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham: “Lord Byron in a stanza of Don Juan, aiming at the impossible, might have achieved the sublime;”