Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt is a long narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. The poem was published between 1812 and 1818. Dedicated to "Ianthe", it describes the travels and re
Lady Charlotte Harley, the dedicatee of Childe Harold under the name Ianthe
Frontispiece to a c. 1825 edition of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Lord Byron in Albanian Dress by Thomas Phillips, 1813
Title page of Alphonse de Lamartine's Le dernier chant du pèlerinage d'Harold, 1825
Byronic hero
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The Byronic hero is a variant of the Romantic hero as a type of character, named after the English Romantic poet Lord Byron. Historian and critic Lord Macaulay described the character as "a man proud,
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
…childe, a medieval title for a young man who was a candidate for knighthood. The poem was widely imitated. It contributed to the cult of the wandering Byronic hero who falls into melancholic reverie as he contemplates scenes of natural beauty. Its autobiographical subjectivity was widely influential, not only in…
Byron c. 1816, by Henry Harlow
Laurence Olivier as the Byronic hero Heathcliff in an adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights