Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Byron, Lord George Gordon

Paris: Galignani, 1827

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1827

George Eliot to Maria Lewis, 28 May 1840. " And to tell you the truth I begin to feel involuntarily isolated, and without being humble, to have such a consciousness that I am a negation of all that finds love and esteem as makes me anticipate for myself -- no matter what; I shall have countless undeserved enemies if my life be prolonged, wherever my lot may be cast, and I need rigid discipline, which I have never yet had. Byron in his Childe Harold (which I have just begun the second time) checks reflections on individual and personal sorrows by reminding himself of the revolutions and woes beneath which the shores of the Mediterranean have groaned. We may with more effectual comparison think of the dangers of the Great Ark of the Church in these latter times of the deluge of sin. I have written an almost unpardonably egotistical letter to say nothing of its other blemishes, but I believe you are the person that loves me well enough to bear with me. Send me word soon how you are and whither going, and think of me as your true and affectionate..." GEL 1: 51-2

Byron, Lord George Gordon, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57111

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