Have you ever started a good book, but realised that the translation

Take some time off from reading, and intensively study literary English. Even native speakers have no idea what the fuck
>Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, / 'Tis woman's whole existence
means unless they've read poetry before. Lord Byron is also a perfect example of an author who liked to write in intentionally archaic language, emulating the Faerie Queene in particular.
Your post sounds 100% native, by the way.

>>8436372
Good annotated editions for difficult works anon. That does the trick. English isn't my first language but there's no way I'm reading a translation. No reason neither.

>>8436372
same goes for aristotle in german

>>8436372
Yeah, loads of times, being a monolingual Englishman. I definitely felt this with Faust Part 1.

Don Juan is fucking hilarious btw, easily the funniest and most enjoyable poem in the English language. The narrator is one of the great voices in literature.

>when Juan gets shipwrecked and has to eat his dog
>when Haidee's father returns to his island and finds everyone eating his shit assuming he's dead
>when Juan hacks through dozens of Turkish mooks just to save one child
>when Juan lands in England and immediately gets mugged by an exaggerated Cockney stereotype
>all those fucking digressions

Great stuff.