Its dedication, which begins "Bob Southey! You're a poet laureate" and goes on to excoriate "the Lakers," was left unpublished until 1832. The author credited The Monks and the Giants by his friend John Hookham Frere with showing him the possibilities of its form, although h
Its dedication, which begins "Bob Southey! You're a poet laureate" and goes on to excoriate "the Lakers," was left unpublished until 1832. The author credited The Monks and the Giants by his friend John Hookham Frere with showing him the possibilities of its form, although his 1817 work Beppo already anticipated his use of a certain rhyme scheme. Its protagonist is forced to flee the Sultan after the Russians seize Ismail and ends up on a political mission for Catherine during the final or "English Cantos." Other trysts include Donna Inez and the pirate princess Haidee, in FTP, what unfinished work in ottava rima, an epic satire about a legendary lover by Lord Byron
Its dedication, which begins "Bob Southey! You're a poet laureate" and goes on to excoriate "the Lakers," was left unpublished until 1832.
Don Juan (pronounced Don Jew-inn)