Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Softcover

Byron, Lord George Gordon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1499250193 ISBN 13: 9781499250190

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 1812

Synopsis

"Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" is Lord Byron at his best-strumming all the right lyrical cords of the hearts of men and women. Byron was a man of his time--faults and all--but who used the literary art to rise above the common lot of aristocrats. Some beautiful excerpts would include "There is a pleasure in the pathless woods/There is a rapture on the lonely shore" or "To such as see thee not my words were weak; To those who gaze on thee, what language could they speak?" There is no better way to feel Byron's craft and the development of his soul and style than by reading "Child Harold's Pilgrimage," a lengthy narrative poem first published in the early 1800's and dedicated to "Ianthe", the term of endearment he used for Charlotte Harley (the artist Francis Bacon's great-great-grandmother). "Child Harold's Pilgrimage" 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.

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:

George Gordon Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 1812
• ISBN 10: 1499250193
• ISBN 13: 9781499250190
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 110