[COMPLETE] Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron - KiltedDragon

[Newgatenovelist]

I'm sorry about your health, but I do hope you're mending. Thank you for saying - I'm hoping to be able to record again, and I'll press on with my own sections! I'll look forward to your sections whenever you're ready.

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Here is Sect 2 (at last):
https://librivox.org/uploads/kilteddragon/childeharoldspilgrimage_02_byron_128kb.mp3
50:38
Peter

[Newgatenovelist]

Canto the Second sounds good. I do hope you're fighting fit.

I've flagged eleven passages in total, though one of those is up for debate.

4.09-4.13, VIII
Check pronunciation of Samian:
The Bactrian, Samian sage, and all who taught the right!
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/samian

5.34-5.40, XI
Yet they could [heard could they] violate each saddening shrine,
And bear these altars o'er the long reluctant brine.

6.45-6.46, XIV
Check pronunciation of Peleus:
Where Peleus' son?
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/peleus

25.51-25.54, LIV
Check pronunciation of Epirus:
Epirus' bounds recede, and mountains fail;
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/epirus

27.15-27.23, LVII
Richly caparisoned, a ready row
Of armed [heard armoured] horse, and many a warlike store,
Circled the wide-extending court below;

33.31-33.34, LXIX
Check pronunciation of Achelous:
Till he did greet white Achelous' tide,
http://howjsay.com/index.php?word=achelous&x=0&y=0&wid=1920&flash=n

37.59-38.03, LXXIV
Check pronunciation of Thrasybulus:
...when on Phyle's brow
Thou sat'st with Thrasybulus and his train,
http://howjsay.com/index.php?word=thrasybulus&x=0&y=0&wid=1920&flash=n

41.27-41.30, LXXXI
This is the questionable one. I think you're absolutely right to use a single-syllable pronunciation in this line. What I'm querying is the vowel sound. Any ideas if Byron was using a contemporary or idiosyncratic pronunciation (Don Juan!) or if the modern one is more fitting?
Glanced many a light caique along the foam,
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/caique

44.34-44.37, LXXXVIII
Check pronunciation of Hymettus:
And still his honeyed wealth Hymettus yields;
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/hymettus

42.58-43.03, LXXXIV
Check pronunciation of Lacedaemon and Thebes:
When riseth Lacedaemon's hardihood,
When Thebes Epaminondas rears again,
http://howjsay.com/index.php?word=lacedaemon&x=0&y=0&wid=1920&flash=n
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/thebes

48.23-48.27, XCV
Thou too art gone, thou loved and lovely [heard lonely] one!

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Hi Erin,
Canto 2 has been reuploaded with corrections
https://librivox.org/uploads/kilteddragon/childeharoldspilgrimage_02_byron_128kb.mp3
The caique pronunciation is an improvement from a metrical point of view.
The armed/armoured issue has arisen because I chose to pronounce armed disyllabically; it seemed to scan better. If you think it still sounds wrong let me know and I'll fix it up.
Thanks for all those links to the pronunciation for the proper nouns.
Peter

[Newgatenovelist]

Fair shake. It sounds good (I did wonder if I should mention armed/armoured), and my main concern was with the classical names.
Canto Two is PL OK.
Erin

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Here is Sect 3
https://librivox.org/uploads/kilteddragon/childeharoldspilgrimage_03_byron_128kb.mp3
60:28
Peter

[Newgatenovelist]

Hi Peter,

A few notes for your consideration:

2.00-2.05, IV
So that it wean me from the weary dream
Of selfish grief or gladness [heard sadness]

9.00-9.02, XVIII
Then tore with bloody talon the rent plain,
Check pronunciation of talon
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/talon

12.53-12.57, XXVI
How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills
Savage and shrill!
Check pronunciation of pibroch
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/pibroch

15.59-16.03, XXXII
...the ruined wall
Stands when its wind-worn [heard torn] battlements are gone;

18.20-18.25, XXXVII
She trembles at thee still, and thy wild name
Was ne'er more bruited in men's minds than now
Check pronunciation of bruited
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/bruit

20.03-20.05, XL
Till they were turned unto [heard into] thine overthrow:

27.29-27.33, LV
Had stood the test of mortal enmities
Still undivided...
See if you hear what I hear on enmities

48.02-48.07, XCIV
Love was the very root of the fond rage
Which blighted their life's [heard love's] bloom...

58.48-58.50, CXVI
...to watch
Thy [heard The] dawn of little joys


I'll be away from my desk at the very end of this month and the beginning of May. This is quite close to completion, and if you've uploaded anything it'll be first in the queue once I'm back. If you'd like me to PL whatever your next project is, just post it in the new project thread and let me know.
Erin

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Sect 3 reuploaded.
https://librivox.org/uploads/kilteddragon/childeharoldspilgrimage_03_byron_128kb.mp3
Regards
Peter

[Newgatenovelist]

Hi Peter,
Section 3 is PL OK.
Erin

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Hi,
Could I possibly request an extra section please? I didn't realise Canto 4 was so long, nearly 200 stanzas, so it will need to be split into two parts.
Many thanks
Peter

[KiltedDragon]

All set!

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Here is Sect 4
https://librivox.org/uploads/kilteddragon/childeharoldspilgrimage_04_byron_128kb.mp3
48:04
Peter

[Newgatenovelist]

Hi Peter,

Perfect timing. It's nice to come back to your voice.

0.43-0.46. II, check pronunciation of Cybele
She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean,
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/cybele

7.36-7.39. XVI
Her voice their [heard the] only ransom from afar:

21.11-21.13. XLIV, check pronunciation(s) of Piraeus
...Piraeus on the right,
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/piraeus
http://howjsay.com/index.php?word=piraeus&x=0&y=0&wid=1920

31.02-31.08. LXV
Her lake a sheet of silver, and her plain
Rent by no ravage [heard savage] save the gentle plough;

38.48-38.51. LXXXI
...we but [heard but we] feel our way to err:

Erin

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Sect 04 has been reuploaded.
Peter

[Newgatenovelist]

Section 4 is PL OK.