Childe Harolds Pilgrimage - Softcover

Byron, Lord George Gordon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1605975710 ISBN 13: 9781605975719

Publisher: Book Jungle, 2008

Synopsis

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. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Byron and literary criticism.

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George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was a British poet, politician, and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems, Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the short lyric poem, "She Walks in Beauty". Byron is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential, due in part to his ability to reverse accepted and acknowledged gender stereotypes. He travelled extensively across Europe, especially in Italy, where he lived for seven years with the struggling poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Later in his brief life, Byron joined the Greek War of Independence fighting the Ottoman Empire, for which many Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died in 1824 at the age of 36 from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi. Often described as the most flamboyant and notorious of the major Romantics, Byron was both celebrated and castigated in life for his aristocratic excesses, including huge debts, numerous love affairs – with men as well as women, as well as rumours of a scandalous liaison with his half-sister – and self-imposed exile.

About this edition

• Publisher: Book Jungle
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1605975710
• ISBN 13: 9781605975719
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204