Byron and Modern Epic: Childe Harold and Don Juan between Fact and Fiction

Abstract

Modifications of the themes of fact and fiction are traced in Byron’s poetry from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage I and II to the reflections of Don Juan where romantic epic is seen as a force of resistance testifying against facts as strategic devices and tools of political manipulation.

Keywords

• Byron
• Modern
• Epic
• Childe
• Harold
• Don
• Juan
• Fact
• Fiction