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the reaction against late nineteenth-century Romanticism led by Pound
and Eliot, do we find anything approaching the tone of
Don Juan.
The later Byron, therefore, is far more of a precursor of modern poetry
than he has ever been given credit for, not only in his main satirical
theme but also in such matters as his conversational diction and the
range of his subject matter (which makes the "daring" similes of the
early Eliot seem quite tame). Why this slashingly witty and brilliantly
sustained mock epic has received so little critical attention in recent
years is a mystery. T. S. Eliot has expressed an unconquerable Olversion
to Milton for being a regicide;-perhaps Byron's offenses against the
Sultan of Turkey have had something to do with the failure of critics
under Eliot's influence to give
Don Juan
the study it deserves. In any
case, although Mr. Bowra's book does not go into such polemical mat–
ters, it should do much to impel other readers (as it has this writer)
to reopen their dusty textbook editions of
DoT/. Juan
and other works
by some of the greatest poets in world literature.
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