Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
A young man sated with pleasure and sick of his own country puts to sea and wanders through Portugal, Spain, Albania and Greece, and the narrator's voice keeps sliding out of his to survey the ruins and the fighting on its own account. Later cantos take the road to Waterloo, up the Rhine, into the Alps and down to Rome, and the pilgrim thins away until little but the survey is left. Byron was twenty-four when the first two cantos appeared; they made him famous within a week and gave the century its portrait of the alienated aristocrat.
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