Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

“I am not now that which I have been,” Byron wrote in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, and that could have been Bobby’s answer to his spiritual change near the end of his life.

DePree points out a 17th Century fireplace that once belonged to poet Lord Byron, who visited while writing his seminal work Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.

Byron made himself at home in one of the upstairs bedrooms and spent a week or so putting the finishing touches to Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, his first hit poem.

Turner’s “Ehrenbreitstein,” a view of a hilltop fortress in Germany inspired by a passage in Byron’s “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.”

I’m reminded of a comment by the critic Wilfrid Sheed, who said he would trade half of Lord Byron’s “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” for an interview with him, and “all of ‘Adam Bede’ for the same with George Eliot.”