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1 - Don Juan and the English Language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2022

Jerome McGann
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University of Virginia
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The “most readable poem in the language” is also one of the most gratulant acts of homage to Byron’s Mother Tongue. Framed in a critical relation to Wordsworth and Coleridge and their influential ideas about language and poetry, Don Juan makes its case by poetic example, not prose precept. The poem’s kaleidoscopic show-and-tell performance of unrestrained poetic expression unfolds to a broad demonstration of Freedom and free expression as primary social, moral, and poetic values.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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