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Byronism

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[bahy-ruhn-iz-uhm] / ˈbaɪ rənˌɪz əm /

noun

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


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Poe was in the grip of Byronism, but as a Childe Harold he was handicapped.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

In this many appear to see the only permanent trace of the now old usurping deluge of Byronism; but it is truly a fact of the time,—less a characteristic than a portion of it.

From The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Beets, Nicolas, a Dutch theologian and poet, born at Haarlem; came, as a poet, under the influence of Byronism; b.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

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