A world-weary wanderer roams Europe brooding on history, ruins, and liberty. Byron's poem that made him famous and defined the Byronic hero.
Books that mention Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (12)
Billy Budd by Herman Melville: “con over the latter portion of the first canto of _Childe Harold_, and ransack your intellectual repository for the liveliest visions of the Fairy Land”
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather: “the Dying Gladiator she had read about in “Childe Harold” almost as long ago as she could remember”
The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman: “One could not but recall the stanza of “Childe Harold”:”
Felix Holt, the Radical by George Eliot: “And she reads Byron also, and admires Childe Harold--gentlemen of unspeakable woes, who employ a hairdresser, and look seriously at themselves in the glass.”
Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery: ““Yes, I feel like Byron’s ‘Childe Harold’—only it isn’t really my ‘native shore’ that I’m watching,” said Anne.”
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster: “She looked up the place in 'Childe Harold,' but Byron had not been there.”
The Man of Property by John Galsworthy: “a poem like “Paradise Lost,” or “Childe Harold”; either of which made you feel that you really had read something”
The Last Man by Mary Shelley: “[1] Lord Byron's Fourth Canto of Childe Harolde.”
Possession by A. S. Byatt: “His grandfather recited poetry on firelight evenings: Marmion, Childe Harold, Ragnarök.”
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin: “Though the young Lincoln never left the frontier, would never leave America, he traveled with Byron’s Childe Harold to Spain and Portugal, the Middle East and Italy; accompanied Robert Burns to Edinburgh; and followed the English kings into battle with Shakespeare.”
The Wild Ass's Skin by Honoré de Balzac: “he had come on a Manfred when he looked to find Childe Harold”
Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace: “Preys upon high adventure, nor can tire Of aught but rest." Childe Harold.”