![]() ![]() ![]() Cantos VI., VII., VIII., with a Preface, were published July 15 Cantos IX., X., XI, August 29 Cantos XII., XIII., XIV., DecemCantos XV., XVI., March 26, 1824. But the publication of these later cantos, which had been declined by John Murray, and was finally entrusted to John Hunt, was spread over a period of several months. In June, 1822, Byron began to work at a sixth, and by the end of March, 1823, he had completed a sixteenth canto. were written in the winter of 1819-1820 Canto V., after an interval of nine months, in October–November, 1820, but the publication of Cantos III., IV., V. Interruptions in the composition and publication of Don Juan were due to the disapproval and discouragement of friends as well as the publisher's hesitation and procrastination. The poem was issued in parts, with intervals of unequal duration. He began the first canto of Don Juan in the autumn of 1818, and he was still at work on a seventeenth canto in the spring of 1823. Nevertheless, the composition of his great poem, Don Juan, was coextensive with a major part of his poetical life. Byron was a rapid as well as a voluminous writer. ![]()
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