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  • For the essay, i used she walks in beauty and discussed byronic heros. amazing cowinkidink

    Twilight Lexicon » Ode to Our Twi-Guy 2009

  • Lets do something new .. it's about choose your *OWN* adventure. it's about byronic post modern where we all get to be whatever it is we want to be.

    Yeah, not so much 2006

  • Lets do something new .. it's about choose your *OWN* adventure. it's about byronic post modern where we all get to be whatever it is we want to be.

    Yeah, not so much 2006

  • Rather than talk about love, poets such as Wordsworth and Keats tended to talk about why love is no longer possible, while Byron applied love to the tragic mode to show the cosmic sadness of his byronic heroes, and Coleridge and Shelley explored love as a better path to the self and the divine.

    Fay, Introduction 1998

  • It required a byronic stomach, for the very first chapter led me to a monastery where mass proceeded in memory of some victim of undiscovered crime.

    The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia 1919

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