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Caledon Library Book of the Month
Lord Byron's Don Juan

Listening Party
Sun, September 14, 12pm - 3pm
The Great Lawn of the Whitehorn Library, Caledon Victoria City
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Intelligent, witty, charming, outrageous, scandalous....all these are equally true of George Noel Gordon, 6th Baron Byron, and his poem "Don Juan."  Lord Byron began the poem in 1818 in Italy,  during a wild, self-indulgent and profligate period of his life, and continued to add to it until his death. The first cantos, published anonymously in 1819,  caused no little uproar for their tone and content. When the authorship was revealed, the poem confirmed Byron's reputation as a flouter of morality (in the eyes of the Mrs. Grundys of the day) and as a poet of rare genius (in the eyes of such contemporaries as Scott, Shelly, & Goethe.) Byron makes the adventures of the fictional character, Don Juan (a name then as now a byword for ignoble seduction) into an excuse to skewer the hypocrisies of his age. 

Our discussion and listening party will center on the first Canto, a recording of which will be streamed as part pf a programme produced by Radio Riel. The station's weekday programmes will also feature music from Byron's lifetime and music associated with the themes and characters of the work. See their blog at http://radioriel.blogspot.com the week of the event for details. If you can't join us in-world for the discussion, tune in on their main stream at http://music.radioriel.org

Copies of the work may be had at the library, or read in the Aether in an excellent Hyperlinked edition at
http://www.geocities.com/~bblair/donjuan.htm

NOTE: The teleport takes you to a hub in Caledon VictoriaCity... Just follow the red arrow/beacon north through the Reading Room to the Great Lawn, or use the red and gold Library Transport Device located at the telehub.