Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Possessing the characteristics of Byron, the poet, or of his poetry: as, a Byronic poem.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
British Romantic poet George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) or his writings.
Etymologies
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Examples
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De Lancie deliberately set out to perform the character as one who was "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," having become well-versed in Byronic lore by playing the poet in a play called "Childe Byron."
Immortals and Vampires and Ghosts, Oh My!: Byronic Heroes in Popular Culture 2002
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Taken as a group, the Turkish Tales obsessively thematize the figure we know as the Byronic hero: a dark, brooding figure with some mysterious tragedy in his past; always alone, even in a crowd, he displays a world-weariness that nevertheless gathers itself into a reluctant heroism at moments of crisis.
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Byron is credited with the invention of this hero, ever since called Byronic; but in truth the melodramatic outcast was a popular character in fiction long before
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909
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The subjects are frequently tender or sad, sometimes morbid -- in short, Byronic.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874
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Significantly it was "Byronic", some 10 years before Byron actually adopted it himself.
Thomas Lawrence: The new romantic – review Richard Holmes 2010
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John W. Nowak's Rescue Rangers stories, mainly about Gadget Hackwrench and her "Byronic" sister Widget, are particularly good!
Good Fanfic? Jaime J. Weinman 2007
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He seemed a kind of Byronic hero to me, even more in the movie than the book.
An Entirely Informal Conversation about Howl's Moving Castle 2005
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He seemed a kind of Byronic hero to me, even more in the movie than the book.
Archive 2005-06-01 2005
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Second, I will argue that the state of marginality, far from being an accident of empirical reception, is both thematized and theorized by Clare's appropriations -- in particular, by the "Byronic" poems in which he reflected on contemporary literary production and the conditions of his own career.
Like 1999
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His metaphysics consists of a somewhat "Byronic" and mystically "malevolent" universe; his epistemology subordinates reason to "will," or feeling or instinct or blood or innate virtues of character.
The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn 1943
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