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Lord Byron is one of my favorite romantic poets and I love this 1936 edition of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. However, I don't know why the picture page of Lord Byron is white when the rest of the book's pages are yellow.
#yellowedpages #OldCoolBooks @Linsy

Harold seems like a thinly veiled excuse to tell what Byron himself has seen. It is a reflection of places he sees, of the struggle between freedom and tyranny, the Napoleonic wars and characteristic traits of the places he visits. It is also a celebration of the past as it expresses itself in ruins and memorials. In that sense Byron is more tourist than anthropologist.
Stylistically impressive, but large parts were just pathos topped with pathos.

On Rousseau‘s influence on revolutions:
“For then he was inspired, and from him came,
As from the Pythian‘s mystic cave of yore,
These oracles which set the world in flame;
Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more.”