The protagonist of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" embodied the example of the self-exiled Byronic hero. His antinomian character is summed up in Lord Macaulay's essay on "Moore’s Life of Lord Byron" ("Edinburgh Review", 1831). "It is hardly too much to say that Lord Byron could exhibit only one man - a man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his heart; a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection…It is curious to observe the tendency which the dialogue of Lord Byron always has, to lose its character of dialogue and to become soliloquy."