1788- Lord George Gordon Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 1788- Lord George Gordon Byron

Byron began Childe Harold's Pilgrimage on his first trip abroad, when he and Hobhouse toured Spain, Portugal, Albania, and Greece. It was originally titled "Childe Burun"; "Childe" refers to a young nobleman who has not yet officially taken his title, and "Burun" is an earlier form of Byron's own name. Inspired by his recent reading of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596), Byron chose to employ the nine-line Spenserian stanza for the major part of this work.