Byronism
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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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Some feared that the legend of Hemingway virility was about to develop into a new Byronism.
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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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Browning was bound in the nature of things to become at the outset Byronic, and Byronism was not, of course, in reality so much a pessimism about civilised things as an optimism about savage things.
From Robert Browning by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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