Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
By George Gordon Byron
- Release Date: 1818-01-01
- Genre: Poetry
Description
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.