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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 1. A travelogue 2. The modern sceptic's version of pilgrimage: a quest for meaning in a Europe no longer centred on Christianity or fired with the French revolutionaries' secular belief in human perfectability. 3. The Protagonist, Harold: Byron's alter ego, a libertine satiated with sin. A libertine, an embitted sceptic, and anti-hero, the obverse of the Christian knight idealised in the Middle Aages. Also a man of feeling. 4. The tone: Sadonic mockery and serious concern. The pilgrim;s paradoxical search for and ideal in spite of his pessimistic awareness of the tranished nature of the fallen world, his elegiac lament for the heroism of the past, this very contradictory mixture of the fervour and despair was the essence of Byronism. 5. Spenserian stanza: ABABBCBCC 
Canto I 1-4: Introduction 25-26: On The Convention of Cintra Canto II 72: On Ali Pacha's Army 73: On Greece
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