| Front | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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| Back | a poem Byron Spenserian stanza 1812, 1816, 1818 the poem was begun in Albania in 1809 during Byron's visit to the eastern Mediterranean it describes the wandering of a young man, disillusioned with his empty pleasure-seeking existence, who looks for distraction in foreign scenes, travelling through Spain, Portugal, Albania, and Greece whose haunted , holy ground' he made an indelible impression on the poet's mind the third canto follows pilgrim to Belgium on the eve of waterloo, along the Rhine and to the Alps and Jura finally speaking in his own voice , Byron describes a literary and historically the association of Venice, Arqua, Florence and Rome 'woke one morning.....' Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a lengthy narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. It was published between 1812 and 1818 and is dedicated to "Ianthe". The poem describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who, disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry, looks for distraction in foreign lands. In a wider sense, it is an expression of the melancholy and disillusionment felt by a generation weary of the wars of the post-Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. The title comes from the term childe, a medieval title for a young man who was a candidate for knighthood. |
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