Byronic

[ bahy-ron-ik ]

/ baɪˈrɒn ɪk /

of or relating to Lord Byron.

possessing the characteristics of Byron or his poetry, especially romanticism, melancholy, and melodramatic energy.

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First recorded in 1815–25; Byron + -ic

By·ron·i·cal·ly, adverbBy·ron·ism

[bahy-ruh-niz-uhm], /ˈbaɪ rəˌnɪz əm/, noun

The germ of Byronism may be clearly detected already in the Wertherism of those times.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, v. 13|Various
It was perhaps partly one of the general results of the Revolutionary insanity earlier, partly a symptom or sequel of Byronism.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2|George Saintsbury
And Chopin, so dandified in his Byronism; the dreamy poet of those who suffer from neurosis!
His Masterpiece|Emile Zola
Byronism, interposed Litvinov, the romanticism of the thirties.
Smoke|Turgenev Ivan Sergeevich

So it is with the great convulsion of Nature which was known as Byronism.
Twelve Types|G.K. Chesterton