Childe Harold by Byron: Romantic Liberalism

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to look in Bryon’s work Childe Harold for elements of Romantic Liberalism, in particular for his depiction of the liberal nation-state. Byron’s work is critical of the state of the world in the British Romantic period. Liberalism and nationalism and inseparable in Romantic Britain.

Keywords

• poetry
• travelling
• nationalism
• freedom