Talk:Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

message: I don't have time to actually go through and mess with this nonsense at the moment, but somebody needs to point out that Childe Harold is only autobiographical in the loosest sense. Byron had a habit of playing on the possibility that his work was true in *wink wink nudge nudge* sort of way, but his works could never be described as "quite autobiographical."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.194.248.113 (talk) 16:21, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Just wrong

message: "to hold thee lightly on a gentle knee and print on thy soft cheek a parent's kiss" is a a quote from this text the article "lolita" claims contains, but the link here shows no such line anywhere in sight.
'Childe Harold became a vehicle for Byron's own beliefs and ideas; indeed in the preface to book three Byron acknowledges the fact that his hero is just an extension of himself. According to Jerome McGann, by masking himself behind a literary artifice, Byron was able to express his view that "man's greatest tragedy is that he can conceive of a perfection which he cannot attain" '
As far as I am aware, there is no preface to Canto III, and Byron explicitly states in the preface to Cantos I and II that Childe Harold should not be read as a version of himself. "It has been suggested to me by my friends, on whose opinion I set a high value, that in this fictitious character, 'Childe Harold', I may incur the suspicion of having intended some real personage: this I beg leave, once for all, to disclaim - Harold is the child of imagination.' This is not to say that Harold is not merely an extension of himself, as in Canto IV he drops the disguise and speaks in the first person, but this is not true of the earlier cantos.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.3.41.50 (talk) 10:53, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: missing text in link

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