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…showed last 75 words of 785 total…published without an author or a publisher. Many thought the poem was novel and powerful, and caused great misgivings for Byron's publisher. Others hoped for the poem to be discontinued. The first sample of Don Juan got a very mixed reception. Byron's publisher, Murray, told him the poem was too outrageously shocking and to revise it. He did not listen to Murray. He believed in what he had created and he wanted to continue it.