Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (In Our Time)
1812 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Byron's poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. In 1812 the 24-year-old Lord Byron published the first part of a long narrative poem. It caused an instant sensation. "I awoke one morning and found myself famous", wrote Byron in his memorandum book, and the first edition sold out in three days. The poem narrates the life of an aristocrat on a grand tour of Europe.
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