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Wild Childe: Byron and the Yellowstone Frontier

ABSTRACT This essay takes as its starting point references to Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage in 1871 Yellowstone expedition narratives. After situating these references in their immediate contexts, I read them back into a broader late-nineteenth-century American understanding of Byron as a poet whose works belonged on the western frontier, in a natural setting. This version of Byron—as a frontier poet and a nature poet—is in many ways distinct from his subsequent receptions, but, as I demonstrate, it played into various cultural formations that preceded the conservation of Yellowstone as a national park, including the logic of Manifest Destiny and the rhetoric of belonging in nature.