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3 unusual facts about Childe Harold's Pilgrimage


Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

According to Jerome McGann, by masking himself behind a literary artifice, Byron was able to express his view that "man's greatest tragedy is that he can conceive of a perfection which he cannot attain".

The "Ianthe" of the dedication was the term of endearment he used for Lady Charlotte Harley.

Rhine romanticism

Lord Byron made the Rhine area enormously popular in England in 1818 with his verse narrative, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.


Whitaker and Baxter

The following quote, which appeared in the L.A. Times reflecting Sinclair's opinion on marriage, was taken from a fictional character's dialogue in Sinclair's book Love's Pilgrimage.


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