* This annotated edition of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage has been completely reformatted and revised to make it easier to read electronically.
* The text of this edition is based on a collation of volume i. of the Library Edition, 1855, with notes by E. H. Coleridge, editor to the 1899 edition, as well as notes by Byron and his close friend John Cam Hobhouse.
* Unlike other ebook editions (which are simply copies of print editions) this publication has been reformatted so that there is one stanza per page. This makes the poem much easier to read. The footnotes are placed at the bottom of each page to enable the reader to easily refer to them without having to link to a different section of the book.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824), sixth baron, was the son of Captain John Byron and his second wife, Catherine Gordon of Gight. Byron's half-sister Augusta, the only child from the captain's first marriage to Lady Carmathen, was to be of great importance in Byron's life.

Upon the death of his grandfather in 1789 -- Byron's father having already died in 1791 -- Byron inherited the baronetcy.

In 1809 he took his seat in the House of Lords, and then left for the first of his prolonged visits abroad. He visited Portugal, Spain, Malta, Greece, and the Levant between 1809 and 1811. In 1809 he began the poem that was to become Childe Harold (completing two cantos). The first two cantos were published in March 1812, and the poem was a great literary triumph. After the publication Byron wrote 'I woke and found myself famous.'

Byron left England in 1816 and travelled to Geneva where the Shelleys had rented a villa. There he wrote Canto III of Childe Harold. By 1817 he was living in Venice, and on a trip to Rome he began the poem's final canto. The last two cantos were published in 1816 and 1818 respectively.

The poem is written in Spenserian stanzas and it describes the travels of Harold, a self-exiled pilgrim, who is a melancholy and defiant outcast.

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