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Byron's Don Juan

One writer who has not recieved nearly enough credit for his works
is George Gordon, who later became known as Lord Byron. This is the man
who wrote his own poetical version of Don Juan. Don Juan is a man who is
known for being able to arouse the desires of women and to love every one
he meets. This Don Juan can be viewed, however, as a loosely disguised
biography of Byron.
Lord Byron's father, Captain John, has ancestors that go back as
far as the Buruns in the time of William the Conqueror. Back in this time
it was very common for people to marry their own cousins. Captain John was
married three times and was considered to be very smooth with the ladies.
Byron was born on January ...

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and his mother quickly removed to England.
All of Byron's passions developed early. In 1803 he had his first
serious and abortive romance with Mary Chaworth. At the age of15 he fell
platonically but violently in love with a young distant cousin, Mary Duff
(Parker 10). He soon had another affair with a woman named Mary Gray.
Soon hereafter he was involved with many liaisons with such women as Lady
Caroline Lamb and then Lady Oxford.
Then just as Byron was beginning to live his life the way he had
always wanted to, his mother dies in 1811. The following year he became
immensely fashionable and notorious. By 1813 he had began another affair
with his half-sister Augusta. Continuing his search for the woman of his
dreams, he marrys Anabella Milbanke in 1815 and has a daughter the same
year.
The next year Lady Byron leaves him to visit her parents and never
returns. Separation papers are signed and he begins another liaison with
Claire Clairmont. The following year(1817), they ...

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Added: 3/30/2007 06:20:04 AM
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