[1812] - Byron publishes Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Cantos I and II (500 copies sell in three days)

Useful Links and Further Reading

• Project Gutenberg, ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage by Lord Byron’,
  http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/chpl10h.htm
• Emily A. Bernhard Jackson, ‘The Harold of a New Age: Childe Harold I and II and Byron’s Rejection of Canonical Knowledge’, Romanticism on the Net, 43 (2006),
  http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2006/v/n43/013594ar.html
• Philip W. Martin, ‘Heroism and History: Childe Harold I and II and the Tales’, in The Cambridge Companion to Byron, ed. Drummond Bone (Cambridge, 2004), 77–98,
  http://cco.cambridge.org/extract?id=ccol0521781469_CCOL0521781469A009
• Nigel Leask, ‘Byron and the Eastern Mediterranean: Childe Harold II and the “Polemic of Ottoman Greece”’, in The Cambridge Companion to Byron, ed. Drummond Bone (Cambridge, 2004), 99–117,
  http://cco.cambridge.org/extract?id=ccol0521781469_CCOL0521781469A010
• Juan L. Sánchez, ‘Byron, Spain, and the Romance of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’, European Romantic Review, 20.4 (2009), 443–64