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...
Don Juan is a satiric poem by Lord Byron, based on the legend of Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womanizer but as someone easily seduced by women. It is a variation on the epic form. Byron himself called it an "Epic Satire" (Don Juan, c. xiv, st. 99). Modern critics generally consider it Byron's masterpiece, with a total of over sixteen thousand...
Don Juan is a satiric poem by Lord Byron, based on the legend of Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womanizer but as someone easily seduced by women. It is a variation on the epic form. Byron himself called it an "Epic Satire" (Don Juan, c. xiv, st. 99). Modern critics generally consider it Byron's masterpiece, with a total of more than 16,000 lines of...
Delphi Classics, 2013. The Poetry Collections. Hours Of Idleness. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Hebrew Melodies. Stanzas For Music. Occasional Pieces, 1807-1824. Domestic Pieces, 1816. Satires. Tales. Dramas. Beppo. Don Juan. Minor Poems. The Poems. List Of Poems In Chronological Order. List Of Poems In Alphabetical Order. The Short Story. Fragment Of A Novel. The Letters. The...
Delphi Classics, 2013. The Poetry Collections. Hours Of Idleness. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Hebrew Melodies. Stanzas For Music. Occasional Pieces, 1807-1824. Domestic Pieces, 1816. Satires. Tales. Dramas. Beppo. Don Juan. Minor Poems. The Poems. List Of Poems In Chronological Order. List Of Poems In Alphabetical Order. The Short Story. Fragment Of A Novel. The Letters. The...
In the summer of 1816, Byron and Shelley sailed around Lake Leman (Lake Geneva). While on their way they stopped at the Chateau of Chillon, and deep in the dungeons, below the water-line of the lake, they visited the place where François de Bonnivard was imprisoned for four years (1532-1536). During those years, Bonnivard had worn an imprint in the stone floor from his pacing...
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