Byronism
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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.
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
Poe was in the grip of Byronism, but as a Childe Harold he was handicapped.
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 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
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