Childe Harold's pilgrimage

canto the fourth

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Lord Byron: Childe Harold's pilgrimage (1818, John Murray)

microform, 257 pages

English language

Published June 24, 1818 by John Murray.

OCLC Number:
16956568

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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was the poem which brought Lord Byron public recognition. He himself disliked the poem, because he felt it revealed too much of himself. In it a young man (called childe after the medieval term for a candidate for knighthood) travels to distant lands to relieve the boredom and weariness brought on by a life of dissipation. It is thought to be a comment on the post-Revolutionary and -Napoleonic generation, who were weary of war.

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