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Byron’s attitude towards love and marriage. In the history of English romanticism, Byron occupies a peculiar position. Byron’s genius was essentially satirical like the classical poets of 18th century. He differs from his contemporaries in the complex character of his response to experience. In his earlier poetry, he tried to look at things from a single point of view. But in ‘Don Juan’ he abandoned this and exploited the whole range of his feelings. The result is that his great poem ‘Don Juan’ provides a vivid and searching commentary on he contemporary social problems. In ‘Don Juan’, Byron expresses his attitude to love and marriage. In the first canto we come across some complicated love relationships, which form the major theme of the poem. At the very beginning, we come across Juan’s love for his mother Dona Inez. The relationship of Juan’s parents represents the consequence of a marriage where the wife and the husband cannot adjust mentally with each other. Inez is in pretentious love with learning which Jose doesn’t like. Jose chooses to go wherever he has a mind and never dreams his wife