Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Cantos I - II
Author: first_name: George Gordon, Lord
last_name: Byron
Language: English
Year: 1812

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. It was published between 1812 and 1818. The poem 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.<br>
The title comes from the term Childe, a