This poet took melancholy journeys like the ones in his long narrative poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
[DOC] [TLE] Cambridge Authors  Byron [PAR] In English literature before Byron, narrative poetry tended to be written in either 
.... His two major works - Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage  are both 
seen ... of Byron as a quintessentially Romantic poet, melancholy, brooding and 
alone.