Byronism
Americannoun
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Some feared that the legend of Hemingway virility was about to develop into a new Byronism.
From Time Magazine Archive
Poe was in the grip of Byronism, but as a Childe Harold he was handicapped.
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Anyone loves to stand on the beach with a hurricane coming--a darkly lashing Byronism in surf and wind gets the blood up.
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And the self-mocking, self-pitying, sardonic, introspective Prince is in many ways a perfect 19th-Century hero: a child�as he was actually the great-grandfather�of Byronism.
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"Sensibility, so charming," was the pet affectation of the period—an affectation carried on till it became quite natural, and was only cured by the half-caricature, half-reaction of Byronism.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George
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