Byronism
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Some feared that the legend of Hemingway virility was about to develop into a new Byronism.
From Time Magazine Archive
Anyone loves to stand on the beach with a hurricane coming--a darkly lashing Byronism in surf and wind gets the blood up.
From Time Magazine Archive
Poe was in the grip of Byronism, but as a Childe Harold he was handicapped.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have sickened on the modern rhodomontade & Byronism, and your plain Quakerish Beauty has captivated me.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb
The germ of Byronism may be clearly detected already in the Wertherism of those times.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 by John Rudd
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