Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Softcover

Byron, Lord

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1533373663 ISBN 13: 9781533373663

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

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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Review:

'I woke up one morning and found myself famous',Byron recalled after the publication in 1812 of the first two cantos of his versified travelogue, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, fruit of a two-year grand tour. Until then he had been despised as a dissolute show-off; suddenly he was the toast of literary society. Byron's remarkable portrait of Spain, Albania and Greece as they were during the Napoleonic wars is laced with tips on seduction ( Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare ), political satire and rapture about literature, landscape, architecture and dashing national attire. The poem was completed in 1818, extended with reflections on Waterloo and a melancholic elegy on Italy's decline. Written to be listened to in Regency drawing rooms to the flutter of fans and cocked lorgnettes, there is no better way of experiencing it than Jamie Parker's beautifully judged performance. --- Christina Hardyment, The Times

Book Description:

Originally published in 1913, this book presents the complete text of Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a long narrative poem in four parts. The text also contains extensive critical notes and an editorial introduction, supplying commentary upon historical, literary and topographical allusions within the poem.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1533373663
• ISBN 13: 9781533373663
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188