Byronically

American  

[bahy-rahn-ik-lee] / baɪˈrɑn ɪk li /

adverb

1. in the characteristic romantic, melancholic, etc., manner of a Byronic hero or literary style.

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Example Sentences

Then, after the couple returns to England, “The Hawk in the Rain” makes its author almost Byronically famous.

From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2015

Allen, four years younger, was Byronically romantic and found a place for his temperament in intelligence work.

From Time Magazine Archive

The tweediness of our faculty, and the curriculum itself, which began, Hellenically, Byronically, with Homer, and then skipped straight to Chaucer, moving on to Shakespeare, Donne, Swift, Wordsworth, Dickens, Tennyson, and E. M. Forster.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Disraeli survived to show that there were still young men who thought Byronically.

From English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge by Mair, G. H. (George Herbert)

In that case, my native land, good night," responded the interesting captive, Byronically; "my incarceration will terminate with an epitaph—'Hic Jacet Robert Peters.

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)