Who wrote the poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage?
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a lengthy narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. It was published between 1812 and 1818 and is dedicated to "Ianthe". 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. The title comes from the term "childe", a medieval title for a young man who was
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage "Britannic". Hector Berlioz drew inspiration from this poem in the creation of his second symphony, a programmatic and arguably semi-autobiographical work called "Harold en Italie". In Anthony Trollope's third book of his Palliser novels, "The Eustace Diamonds", Rev. Emilius reads the first half of the fourth canto to Lizzie Eustace. C. S. Lewis, in "The Screwtape Letters", uses Childe Harold as an example of a soul who would have been damned by his "self-pity for imaginary distresses." Childe Harold, "Whatever that might mean", is carried to sea by Horatio Hornblower in C. S. Forester's "The Commodore". Herman Melville in "Moby-Dick"