Byron's Don JuanA writer who has not received enough credit for his works is George Gordon, who later became known as Lord Byron. This is the man who wrote his own poetic version of Don Juan. Don Juan is a man known for his ability to arouse the desires of women and to love everyone he meets. This DonJuan can, however, be considered a loosely disguised biography of Byron. Lord Byron's father, Captain John, has ancestry stretching back to the Buruns in the time of William the Conqueror. In those days, it was very common for people to marry their own cousins. Captain John was married three times and was considered very nice to the ladies. Byron was born on January 22, 1788 in London and the following year he and his mother moved to Aberdeen, Scotland. His father soon followed him, but it did not take long for him to disappear to France and ended up dying in 1791. This was just as well because his parents never got along very well. In Lord Byron's early years, he experienced poverty, illness - his mother's mood and the absence of his father. By 1798 he had inherited the title of 6th Baron Byron and the estate of Newstead Abbey. After hearing this news, he and his mother quickly left for England. All of Byron's passions developed very early. In 1803 he had his first serious and abortive romance with...