Influences’ conclusion


In a sense, Don Juan is indebted to only one great

influence: it grew out of traumatic events in Byron’s own

life. It encompasses the Don Juan tradition, because this

legend embodied essential elements of Byron’s own life and

character, as perceived by the society in which Byron lived.

But in Byron’s hands, the Don Juan story became thoroughly

fused with the story of Tom Jones. This great humanistic

novel also contained vital elements of Byron’s character

and of his society, as perceived by Byron hiraself.

In addition to its combination of plot elements from

life and literature, Don Juan also represented a new mode in

English literature. It combined the English colloquial

tradition of Fielding and other great writers with the

Italian jocose epic tradition of Berni and Pulci. Dominating

all of these diverse elements was Byron’s own personality,

huraorous and cynical, yet sentiraental at the same time,

and, above all, realistic.

Finally, we raust recognize that Don Juan was also a

product of its own tiraes, despite the critical attacks which

it provoked among Byron’s contemporaries, and despite our

own recognition of it as a great work of art. It owed its

form to Byron’s chance encounter with an imitation of Bemi

by J. H. Frere. Its very title and subject were made possible

only by the revival of interest in the Don Juan legend

during 1817 and 1818. Even when Byron had decided upon the

genre and the subject matter, his ultimate comraitraent to the

work may have been inspired by Shelley’s visiting him at an

appropriate raoraent, renewing his zest for poetry and bolstering

his confidence in his own poetic powers.

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