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Byronism

American  
[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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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

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

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.

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And now it is as stale as Byronism.

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles

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