A masterful work of thorough historical-literary research on a previously unexplored subject in the Romantic Era. (Floyd C. Watkins, Emory University) Blann is appropriately cautious with his history in this work and is meticulously diffident in drawing conclusions - but attention to scholarly canons does not interfere with the liveliness, often the wryness, of a study which brings things together about Byron and 'Don Juan' that have not been brought together before. (William R. Wolfe, Middle Tennessee State University) ukryj opis