History & The Arts
Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
...techniques that you’ll need. Reading poetry can be a bit daunting, so a good way to start is to listen to Samuel West reading an extract from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto IV. Activity 7 First, listen to the audio recording of the poem. Audio 1: Samuel West reads nine stanzas (128–9 and 139–45) excerpted from Jerome J. McGann’s edition of Childe Harold’s...