Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Annotated)

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is Byron's seminal verse narrative of alienated travel, following a disenchanted young aristocrat through Portugal, Spain, Albania, Greece, and Italy. Written in Spenserian stanzas, it blends topographical description, political meditation, historical reflection, and lyric self-scrutiny. Published between 1812 and 1818, it stands at the heart of British Romanticism, enla...