Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

by lord byron

Overview

Lord Byron was a prominent English poet who contributed significantly to the Romantic movement. Byron was notorious in his day for such things as huge debts and numerous love affairs, but the popularity of his poetry has never waned.

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is an epic poem that details the adventures of a privileged young man who travels to foreign lands.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788827530276
Publisher:	Qasim Idrees
Publication date:	12/08/2017
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	704 KB

About the Author

George Gordon, afterwards Lord Byron, was born in London in 1788. He inherited the title and seat at Newstead Abbey, but little money, in 1798. His first poems were written at Harrow before he proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, acquiring a reputation for high living. He published two volumes, Fugitive Pieces and Hours of Idleness, in 1807, but they attracted criticism. After a Mediterranean tour, Byron completed the first two cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, which made him a celebrity on publication in 1812. Further poems were successful but the end of his brief and unsuitable marriage in 1816 led to scandal and Byron left England never to return. He went to Switzerland with Percy and Mary Shelley, then to Venice, where he completed Childe Harold, wrote Manfred and started Don Juan. He also corresponded with Goethe and became involved in the cause of Italian independence as his fame grew. Moving around the Mediterranean in 1822 he became actively involved in the movement for Greek independence from Turkey, becoming one of its political and naval leaders. He contracted rheumatic fever from a severe chill in an open boat, and died in April 1824. His heart was buried in Greece, his body at Newstead after Westminster Abbey refused it.

Table of Contents

Preface; Contents; Introduction; Text: Preface to the first and second cantos; Addition to the preface; To Ianthe; Canto the first; Canto the second; Canto the third; To John Hobhouse, Esq.; Canto the fourth; Notes; Appendix. Summary of the contents of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.