Happy birthday, Lord Byron (1788-1824)! I just re-read Don Juan, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. It is not only much more accessible than Byron’s only finished book length poem “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”, but is frequently laugh-out-loud funny, at least I found it so. Byron gets laughs on rhymes in PRECISELY the same way [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:09PM on January 22, 2013