Photo: Pete Swan
From Lord Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto III, l. 287-8. Here, Childe Harold is quite the Byronic hero: intelligent, perceptive, arrogant, but full of sorrow.
What They Wrote is a (new) feature where I share my favourite literary quotes in image form. This photo is courtesy of the lovely Pete Swan.
I like this new idea! I’m going to steal some of these if I ever have to teach the ‘Distinctively Visual’ unit again.
Oh…now my heart hurts.
And yet ‘There is a life in our despair, / Vitality of poison’
(CHP III.298-9)
Lovely post my dear :-)