Byronism

[bahy-ruhn-iz-uhm]

noun

1. the style or qualities of Byronic literature or its characters; romanticism, melancholy, melodrama, etc.

Example Sentences

The Victorian Neo-Hellenists, too late for Byronism and too early for Hollywood, aimed for perfection.

From Wall Street Journal

On the other hand, Mr. Swinburne is constantly liable on this same line to lapse into flagrant levity and perversity of taste; as in saying that he cannot consider Wordsworth "as mere poet" equal to Coleridge as mere poet; in speaking of Alfred de Musset as "the female page or attendant dwarf" of Byron, and his poems as "decoctions of watered Byronism"; or in alluding jauntily and en passant to Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin as "the most perfect and exquisite book of modern times."

From Project Gutenberg

Doubtless, all this stemmed from Byronism.

From Project Gutenberg

And now it is as stale as Byronism.

From Project Gutenberg

A lover of Gallic Byronism, and high-priest of the Satanic school, there was no extravagance, absurd or terrible, that he did not commit, from etching a four-part fugue on ice to skating hymns in honour of Lucifer.

From Project Gutenberg