It is almost two hundred years since the death of Lord Byron. He succumbed to ... in the second canto of “Don Juan,” Byron’s uncontested masterpiece. He began it in 1818; the fifteenth ...

On April 19, 1824, Lord ... “Don Juan,” the erotic adventures of its rather hapless Spanish hero, recounted by a jaded narrator who insists, “I sketch your world exactly as it goes.” Byron ...