This was the poem that set Byron on his meteoric course as Don Juan bursting into formal Napoleonic London society like a guided missile. Everyone was reading it, from literate serving girls and parlour maids to the top nobs. It's difficult to believe these days that it sent women into fainting fits

This is my favorite work by Lord Byron. Hands down. No contest. I revisit it often to read favorite sections.

Via the character of Childe Harold, and later simply as himself, Byron explores the world. He visits places like Spain, Turkey, and of course, Greece. He also muses on great historical figur

Lately I've being reading around Frankenstein, so Byron, who was at Lake Geneva that fateful summer when Mary Shelley began writing her masterpiece, couldn't be excluded. The parts of Byron's pilgrimage spent in solitude and melancholy on mountaintops are often quite brilliant:

To fly from, need not

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A csillagozás a szokásos átlagolásom eredménye: a megírás minősége öt csillag, az élmény három.

Két okból fogtam bele.
Gimnazista-egyetemista koromban nemcsak tetszett, hanem nagyon komoly hatással is volt rám az angol romantika irodalma. Nem túlzás azt áll

It's not a breeze to read this if you live in our century. People who went mad for Byron two hundred years ago read long-form poetry, the Bible, Latin, and Greek as a matter of course--that's what it meant to read. They sat in church a lot. Four references to mythological heroes/Roman history/Italia

""For who would trust the seeming sighs
⁠Of wife or paramour?
Fresh feeres will dry the bright blue eyes
⁠We late saw streaming o'er.
For pleasures past I do not grieve,
⁠Nor perils gathering near;
My greatest grief is that I leave
⁠No thing that claims a tear."

For a poem with a reputation for crass "emo-n

Childe Harold may be the epitome of romanticism, but also of how poorly romanticism has aged. The concept of the work is fascinating-- a travelogue in the form of Spencerian epic verse. Byron's prose endnotes often read more like standard travel writing, and contain some wonderful anecdotes such as

Like many literature students, I first encountered Childe Harold in a shortened version. In 2010 I read the last two cantos and I really didn't like it. I still think it is easy to get lost in the language and it is difficult understand what Byron is trying to say, even going over the last two canto