A Comparison Of Blake To Byron
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...calm, harmonious, balanced, structured, and rational, then the Romantic period was anything but those things. This is particularly true of the use of nature and natural elements in the works of the time’s greatest literatureluding William Blake’s, The Schoolboy, and Lord Byron’s infamous Don Juan.
The story of Don Juan first appears in an old Spanish legend concerning a handsome but unscrupulous man who seduces the daughter of the commander of Seville and then, when challenged, kills her father in a duel. In the original version, Don Juan mockingly invites the statue of the father to a feast; the statue appears at the banquet and ushers Don Juan to hell. There are many re-tellings of this story in drama and theatre; Mozart used the story for his opera Don Giovanni. One of the more notable features of the opening canto is the philosophical way in which it starts I...
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