Lord George Gordon Byron's reaction to the spirit of the age in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage as a character in his own work George Gordon Byron, known as Lord Byron, was one of the most influential poets in the Romantic period of English literature in the 18th century. In the Norton Anthology of English Literature, he is presented as “the greatest and most English of these artists; he is so great and so English that from him alone we learn more truths of this country and his age than from all the others put together. This comment reflects the fact that Byron had achieved an immense European reputation during his lifetime, while the admirers of his English contemporaries were much more limited in number. For much of the nineteenth century he continued to be regarded as one of England's greatest poets and the true prototype of literary romanticism. His influence manifested itself everywhere, among the major poets and novelists (Balzac and Stendhal in France, Pushkin and Dostoevsky in Russia and Melville in America), painters (especially Delacroix) and composers including Beethoven and Berlioz). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is one of Byron's major works and even if he states the opposite in the prologue of his work it presents traces of his life, therefore autobiographical aspects. It therefore provides a profound insight into the spirit of the age. He mixes his personality and opinions into his protagonist. The poem focuses on a nobleman disillusioned with sensory pleasures, like Byron himself, who seeks fame and virtue, much like Byron's journey to Greece. Although Byron and the Byronic hero are not very chivalrous, they inherit the characteristics of the spirit of the British Empire of the time. Byron begins his work...... halfway through the paper and politics. Therefore, Lord Byron's epic poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, through Harold's reactions during his journey and the autobiographical elements contained in the poem, provides a profound insight into the spirit of society, wars, politics that aspires to Greek classicism through the romanticism and the struggle that dominates Europe. of the time.Work cited1. Byron, George Gordon. Child Harold's Pilgrimage. The Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol 2, New York; London: WW Norton & Co., 20122. Caminita, M. Cristina. Explaining the Explanation: Byron's Notes on Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, August 20023. Guðmundsdótti, Sólrún Helga. The origins and legacy of the Byronic hero. Sigillum Universitatis Islandiae, May 20124. Thorslev, Peter L. The Byronic Hero. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota P, 1962