Lord Byron

Es muy posible que Lord Byron (1788 - 1824) encarne más que ningún otro autor inglés, la postura externa más llamativa del romanticismo de su país, tanto por su vida agitada, llena de lances arriesgados y hermosos, como por la brillantez y apasionamiento de sus obras, entre las que destaca, como detalle casi inedito para el publico español, su marcado don por la satira y el humor sarcastico. Esta antologia reune todas aquellas poesias que han cimentado la fama perdurable de Lord Byron, incluyendose en la misma algunos fragmentos de sus obras mayores, como son Don Juan y Childe Harold, los cuales han alcanzado la categoria de poemas independientes del contexto para el que fueron creados. La edicion se completa con un penetrante estudio de Douglas Dunn.

La corriente romántica desarrollada en Europa en la primera mitad del siglo XIX, que reaccionaba contra el clasicismo y racionalismo francés anterior, tiene un claro exponente en Gran Bretaña en las figuras precursoras de Wordsworth y Coleridge, con sus Baladas líricas y, posteriormente, en Lord Byron, con obras como Manfred, El corsario, Sandanápalo o Don Juan.

Es éste un libro inusual, por su contenido, y porque en su elaboración han participado, además de Byron, dos escritores de gran prestigio : Jaime Gil de Biedma y Eduardo Mendoza. En efecto, de la ing

Don Juan is a satiric poem by Lord Byron, based on the legend of Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womanizer but as someone easily seduced by women. As a young man he is precocious sexually, and has an affair with a friend of his mother. The husband finds out, and Don Juan is sent away to Cadiz. On the way, he is shipwrecked, survives and meets the daughter of a pirate, whose men sell Don Juan as a slave. A young woman, who is a member of a sultans harem, sees that this slave is purchased. She disguises him as a girl and sneaks him into her chambers. Don Juan escapes, joins the Russian army and rescues a Muslim girl named Leila. Don Juan meets Catherine the Great, who asks him to join her court. Don Juan becomes sick, is sent to England, where he finds someone to watch over Leila. Moving from one place to the next, Don Juan encounters new women and new adventures.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of Lord Byron" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 1:Fugitive PiecesPoems on Various OccasionsHours of IdlenessPoems Original and TranslatedEarly Poems from Various SourcesThe Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 2:Childe Harolds PilgrimageThe Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 3:Poems 18091813The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish TaleThe Bride of Abydos: A Turkish TaleThe CorsairOde to Napoleon BuonaparteLaraHebrew Melodies:She walks in BeautyThe Harp the Monarch Minstrel sweptIf that High WorldThe Wild GazelleOh! weep for thoseOn Jordans BanksJepthas DaughterOh! snatched away in Beautys BloomMy Soul is DarkI saw thee weepThy Days are doneSaulSong of Saul before his Last Battle"All is Vanity, saith the Preacher"When Coldness wraps this Suffering ClayVision of BelshazzarSun of the Sleepless!Were my Bosom as False as thou deemst it to beHerods Lament for MariamnePoems 18141816The Siege of CorinthParisinaPoems of the SeparationThe Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 4:The Prisoner of ChillonPoems of JulySeptember, 1816:Monody on the Death of the Right Hon. R. B. SheridanManfred: A Dramatic PoemThe Lament of TassoBeppo: A Venetian StoryOde on VeniceMazeppaThe Prophecy of DanteThe Morgante Maggiore of PulciFrancesca of RiminiMarino Faliero, Doge of Venice: An Historical TragedyThe Vision of JudgmentPoems 1816-1823The Blues: A Literary EclogueThe Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 5:Sardanapalus: A TragedyThe Two Foscari: An Historical TragedyCain: A MysteryHeaven and Earth; A MysteryWerner; or, The Inheritance: A TragedyThe Deformed Transformed: A DramaThe Age of Bronze; or, Carmen Seculare et Annus haud MirabilisThe Island; or, Christian and his ComradesThe Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 6:Don JuanThe Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7:Jeux dEsprit and Minor Poems, 17981824Letters and Journals of Lord ByronBiographies:Byron by John NicholThe Life of Lord Byron by John Galt

Traducción de Esteban Pujals. Edición bilingüe. George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron, una de las figuras más prominentes del Romanticismo, nació en Londres en 1788. En 1809 es recibido en la Cámara de lo