Don Juan Finish'd

Three women in love with him, a prudish foreign society, and a ghost possibly haunting the halls in which he is a guest: these are the strands of the knot in which Lord Byron has tied Don Juan (pronounced, according to Byron, to rhyme with "few on"). To untangle himself will require all the boy's courage and compassion, and take him through literal Hell.

Introduction (from Canto 17) (Byron Society)

"Food" (from Canto 17) (forthcoming: Lighten Up Online)

"Walking" (from Canto 20) (THINK)

"Life, That Hack!" (from Canto 21) (Pulsebeat)

"Ada Lovelace" (from Canto 21) (Light)

"Hell" (from Canto 22) (Orbis)

"We Each Have Got Our Bliss" (from Canto 23) (Light)

"Conscious Agents" (from Canto 23) (Pulsebeat)

"Story-telling" (from Canto 23) (Snakeskin)

"The Art of Digressing" (from Canto 23) (Pulsebeat)

"Modern Verse" (from Canto 23) (Lighten Up Online)

"Tirso" (from Canto 24) (Lighten Up Online)

"The Stars" (from Canto 24) (THINK)

Links for venues that have published these and other excerpts: Byron Society, Form in Formless Times,  Light, Lighten Up Online, Orbis, Pulsebeat, Slant, Snakeskin,  THINK.