'Don Juan,' "a problem, like all things." (Lord George Gordon Byron)

From: Papers on Language & Literature | Date: June 22, 1998| Author: LaChance, Charles | Copyright information

'Don Juan,' published in 1819, has been disputed by critics for its problematic ideas and themes. Don Juan defended his work as "most moral" but confessed the poem is profligate and bawdy. The work involves religious disputes. These disputes concern views on platonism, loss of innocence, sex, dread of retribution, fate, and universal vice.

From its first printing in 1819 till now--nearly two centuries later--readers have disputed the big ideas and real values of Don Juan. Its proble...

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