ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, autobiographical poem in four cantos by George Gordon, Lord Byron. Cantos I and II were published in 1812, Canto III in 1816, and Canto IV in 1818.

Detailed explanation-2: -A poem in Spenserian stanzas by Lord Byron (1788-1824), Cantos I and II appeared in 1812, Canto III in 1816 and Canto IV in 1818.

Detailed explanation-3: -Inspiration came from his travels throughout southern Europe with his friend John Cam Hobhouse. They left England in 1809 and did not return for two years. It was Byron’s distant relative R.C. Dallas who urged him to publish the poem with John Murray, arguably the most important bookseller in England.

Detailed explanation-4: -Byron’s first published volume of poetry, Hours of Idleness, appeared in 1807. A sarcastic critique of the book in The Edinburgh Review provoked his retaliation in 1809 with a couplet satire, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, in which he attacked the contemporary literary scene.