ABSTRACT

Don Juan, Beppo and The Vision of Judgment offer a similar type of literary discourse in which the politics of the author towards his addressees is pervaded with pseudo-educational persuasion aimed at explaining concepts in a humorous and ironic way. The literary character of political protest was also visible in the loquacity, the love of rhetoric and propagandist verbosity of conspirators, for whom sociable high spirits and cheerful carousal were an expression of anti-regime protest and a synonym for freedom. Byron's literary aim is not purely intellectual. Unlike the real, historical Junius the practical aim of the authorial voice in the poem is to rouse hatred, as the speaker presents himself as a personal hater and a carnivalesque monster as a writer All the different authors and their names in The Vision of Judgment are subjects of conceptual treatment and Byron's optics of humorous literary delusion.