Which British poet wrote the verse satire Don Juan?
Don Juan (poem) Don Juan (poem) Don Juan (; see below) is a satiric poem by Lord Byron, based on the legend of Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womaniser but as someone easily seduced by women. It is a variation on the epic form. Byron himself called it an "Epic Satire" (Don Juan, c. xiv, st. 99). Byron completed 16 cantos, leaving an unfinished 17th canto before his death in 1824. Byron claimed that he had no ideas in his mind as to what would happen in subsequent cantos as he wrote his work. When the first two
Don Juan and vivifying". Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman wrote and directed a comic sequel in 1960 titled "The Devil's Eye" in which Don Juan, accompanied by his servant, is sent from Hell to contemporary Sweden to seduce a young woman before her marriage. Anthony Powell in his novel "Casanova's Chinese Restaurant" contrasts Don Juan, who "merely liked power" and "obviously did not know what sensuality was", with Casanova, who "undoubtedly had his sensuous moments". Don Juan is mentioned in the Broadway musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables", in which the character Grantaire states that Marius Pontmercy is acting like Don