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Credit: I. H. Jones
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a lengthy narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. The poem describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who, disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry, looks for distraction in foreign lands. This illustration, which depicts a giant described in Canto I, Stanza 39, is the frontispiece to an 1825 printing of the book.