Ali’s Reviews > Lord Byron: Don Juan, She Walks In Beauty, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, To Caroline & More > Status Update

Not this book, but Don Juan in the Norton Anthology. I’m tickled by Byron in this mode - She Walks In Beauty is all fine and good, but Byron for me shines when he’s playful. Canto I gives 19th century Lin-Manuel Miranda with a little Randy Rainbow, like he’s trolling the beau monde and social mores with deliberately informal and loose rhyme and some very funny sly and ribald pettiness subtending the whole.