Showing posts with label Don Juan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Don Juan. Show all posts
Monday, March 25, 2019

Rereading Byron's "Don Juan": Canto III

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Lord Byron’s third canto is a long study in suspense—as we merge with pirate Lambro as he returns to his pirate-isle only to find all think ...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Byron: "Where is the world of eight years past?"

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'Where is the world?' cries Young at eighty.  'Where The world in which a man was born?' Alas! Where is the world of eigh...
Thursday, December 13, 2018

Bookish

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Saturday, December 1, 2018

Introduction to Poetry

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Here are the books: English 43: Introduction to Poetry CCSF Spring 2019
Saturday, November 8, 2014

Byron: "This Odd Labyrinth"

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I won’t describe—that is, if I can help     Description; and I won’t reflect—that is, If I can stave off thought, which, as a whelp     ...
Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Glimpses: Or, Lecture Notes

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Friday, November 2, 2012

Reprise: "And If I Laugh At Any Mortal Thing"

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I Nothing so difficult as a beginning  In poesy, unless perhaps the end;  For oftentimes when Pegasus seems winning  The race, he sprain...
Thursday, November 1, 2012

Byron: "A Small Drop Of Ink"

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But words are things, and a small drop of ink,        Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps milli...
Saturday, April 21, 2012

"There Is A Tide In The Affairs of Women . . ."

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Or, "But Actium, Lost For Cleopatra's Eyes" --Byron's opening to Canto VI of Don Juan: 'There is a tide in the...

Talking About Byron

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"I Leave The Thing a Problem, Like All Things": The Example of Byron A suggestive, representative introduction to the life, th...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Byron: "Between Two Worlds Life Hovers . . ."

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Between two worlds life hovers like a star 'Twixt night and morn upon the horizon's verge, How little do we know that which we are! ...
Monday, November 15, 2010

Passages: Pegasus "Sprains a Wing"? Not Hardly

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Here is the opening to Lord Byron's fourth canto of his marvelous, seemingly miscellaneous masterpiece Don Juan. I love the narrative vo...