First, it allows the narrator to digress from the actual story, since the. But now I can't believe how much joy I've been missing by not making this my default version of Byron's exuberant and hilarious masterpiece. This article argues that the choice of the hero in Lord Byron’s Don Juan has two major consequences for satire. And even on this most recent listen, it took me a few dozen stanzas to really warm up to Griffin's approach. I had heard the whole thing when it first came out, and have attempted it two or three times more-Byron's irresistibly witty narrative is very hard for me to stay away from, and no one of the existing recordings is enough to sate my appetite for long. 195: twilights sky: Teresa Guiccioli records how these stanzas were inspired by Byrons rides with her near Ravenna (Lord Byrons Life in Italy, 2.151-2: pp. So I decided to listen to his Don Juan yet again.

But in his recent second recording of The Canterbury Tales, he decisively overcame what I saw as his previous limitations, or at least overcame my resistance to them. I've never objected to the fact that Charlton Griffin always impersonates a British accent it's that his British persona ALWAYS tends to be so puffed up and high-falutin, and that some of his pronunciations don't seem to be correct for either side of the Atlantic. Byrons exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy.

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