Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Cambridge Scholars Publishing Classics Texts) - Softcover

Lord George Gordon Byron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1443809667 ISBN 13: 9781443809665

Publisher: CSP Classic Texts, 2009

Synopsis

'Childe Harold' made Byron's reputation, and remains one of his greatest work. This edition contains stanzas cancelled by Byron during the composition process or at the request of friends, and Byron's and Hobhouse's notes on the poem, incorporated into the text.

About this title

Product Description:

Unusual book

About the Author:

George Gordon, afterwards Lord Byron, was born in London in 1788. He inherited the title and seat at Newstead Abbey, but little money, in 1798. His first poems were written at Harrow before he proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, acquiring a reputation for high living. He published two volumes, Fugitive Pieces and Hours of Idleness, in 1807, but they attracted criticism. After a Mediterranean tour, Byron completed the first two cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, which made him a celebrity on publication in 1812. Further poems were successful but the end of his brief and unsuitable marriage in 1816 led to scandal and Byron left England never to return. He went to Switzerland with Percy and Mary Shelley, then to Venice, where he completed Childe Harold, wrote Manfred and started Don Juan. He also corresponded with Goethe and became involved in the cause of Italian independence as his fame grew. Moving around the Mediterranean in 1822 he became actively involved in the movement for Greek independence from Turkey, becoming one of its political and naval leaders. He contracted rheumatic fever from a severe chill in an open boat, and died in April 1824. His heart was buried in Greece, his body at Newstead after Westminster Abbey refused it.

About this edition

• Publisher: CSP Classic Texts
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1443809667
• ISBN 13: 9781443809665
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 295