Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Softcover

Byron, Lord

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1496056256 ISBN 13: 9781496056252

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

One of Lord Byron's most enduring and powerful works, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage has remained in the public conscience and continues to fascinate and inspire people even today.

About this title

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 the Author:

Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, we'll go no more a roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential. Byron was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts, numerous love affairs, and self-imposed exile. He was famously described by Lady Caroline Lamb as "mad, bad and dangerous to know". He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi in Greece.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1496056256
• ISBN 13: 9781496056252
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 110