Dear Folks Can anyone help my ignorance by telling me who was the Childe Harold of the poem "Childe Harold to the dark tower came"? I am also just about to go to a performance of Harold in Italy by Berlioz and assume that this is the same person. I would just very much like to know who he was. Anybody know? Audrey

Hi Audrey, Byron's Childe Harold was fictitious. From a quick check on the web, it seems that Berlioz took the name from Byron, but the romantic dreamer of Harold in Italy was Berlioz himself. See http://hector.ucdavis.edu/Berlioz2003/ProgNotes/068Harold.htm For Childe Harold's Pilgramage, see http://website.lineone.net/~ssiggeman/chp/ Enjoy the performance... Cheers, Liz in Melbourne Quoting "norman.lee1" <norman.lee1@virgin.net>: > Dear Folks > > Can anyone help my ignorance by telling me who was the Childe Harold of the poem "Childe Harold > to the dark tower came"? I am also just about to go to a performance of Harold in Italy by > Berlioz and assume that this is the same person. I would just very much like to know who he was. > Anybody know? > > Audrey > > > ==== OLD-ENGLISH Mailing List ==== > OLD-ENGLISH Web Page > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/ > >