Title: Childe Harold's pilgrimage
Subtitle: a romaunt
Description: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was the poem which brought Lord Byron public recognition. He himself disliked the poem, because he felt it revealed too much of himself. In it a young man (called childe after the medieval term for a candidate for knighthood) travels to distant lands to relieve the boredom and weariness brought on by a life of dissipation. It is thought to be a comment on the post-Revolutionary and -Napoleonic generation, who were weary of war.
Subjects: Translations into English, Modern Greek literature, Facsimiles, English literature, English Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Translations, Fiction, Poetry, Travel, Description and travel
People: George Gordon Byron Byron Baron (1788-1824)