Don Juan is a satiric poem by Lord Byron, based on the legend of Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womanizer but as someone easily seduced by women. It is a variation on the epic form. Byron himself called it an “Epic Satire.” Byron completed sixteen cantos, leaving an unfinished seventeenth canto before his death in 1824. Byron claimed he did not have any ideas in his mind as to what would happen in subsequent cantos as he wrote his work.
When the first two cantos were published anonymously in 1819, the poem was criticized for its “immoral content,” although it was also immensely popular.
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