Word: juan
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...conception of life is that there is nothing worth living for but love. So he admires "Manon Lescaut" and " Don Juan." Love thus conceived is a sombre passion, a sacred...
...unmanly and effeminate; and third, the doubt expressed by some critics as to whether Keats would have advanced greatly in his art. Keats was in certain ways a Greek in spirit but undoubtedly a romantic in form. As to his weakness, Blackwood's "Johnny Keats," the stanza in Don Juan, and even Shelley's Adonais have after their varying fashions given the world a false impression; and George Keats's saying that his brother was about as much like "Johnny Keats" as he was like the Holy Ghost is needed-with the ample testimony that supports it-to strike...
...Avare," with several other works of Moliere's, as Don Juan, is incorrectly called comedy. The French comedy, means, not comedy, but simply play. Comedy was a prominent feature of Moliere's work, but in some of his plays tragedy plays an important part. The two works mentioned above include both tragedy and comedy, corresponding to the English drama. According to the arbitrary rules of the French writers, this mixture of style was more than a mistake, it was a crime. But here, no less than in his regard for the three unities, so dear to the hearts of French...
Then came Manfred, Tasso and several songs inspired by friendship for Shelley and his exile. In Venice were written Don Juan; then his dramas, none of them masterpieces, and the Vision of Justice, which caused great consternation. Don Juan is a picture of the world as Byron saw it; he had drunk the cup of pleasure and had found all vanitus vanitatum...
Globe - Richard Mansfield in "Don Juan...