Prospects of Europe: The First Iteration of <i>Childe Harold</i>'<i>s Pilgrimage</i>

An analysis of the first two cantos of Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage in terms of the poet's aristocratic, classical education, and the ways of seeing people, landscape, and history it encouraged. Forms of vision are central to the first instalment of this great European poem, and are shot through with ambivalence. © The Keats-Shelley Memorial Association 2014.<p></p>