Crossword clues for byronic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Byronic \By"ron`ic\, a. Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron.
With despair and Byronic misanthropy.
--Thackeray
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1823, pertaining to or resembling British poet George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824).\n\nPerfect she was, but as perfection is\n
Insipid in this naughty world of ours,\n
Where our first parents never learn'd to kiss\n
Till they were exiled from their earlier bowers,\n
Where all was peace, and innocence, and bliss\n
(I wonder how they got through the twelve hours),\n
Don Jose like a lineal son of Eve,\n
Went plucking various fruit without her leave.\n
[from "Don Juan"]
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to British Romantic poet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Gordon%20Byron (1788-1824) or his writings.
Usage examples of "byronic".
I have said, the Byronic element in the two Byronic poems is limited to the subject and the narrative construction.
But the Byronic spirit was only superficially assimilated by Pushkin, and the two poems must be regarded as further impersonal exercises on a borrowed theme.
These poems are immeasurably superior to the two earlier Byronic tales.
His superficially passionate heroes, with their Byronic pose, are rather cheap.
His Byronic pose was transformed into that of a smart and cynical bully.
Caucasian tale of revenge, free from Byronic darkness and prolixity, written in a rapid tempo, with a somewhat crude but vigorous martial beat.
To be understood in their genesis, these stories have to be felt against their background of romantic literature, against the romances of Bestuzhev and the Byronic poems of Pushkin and Lermontov.
Bruchard says that this phrase defines and summarizes the Byronic Don Juan.
Vathek is a tale of the grandson of the Caliph Haroun, who, tormented by that ambition for super-terrestrial power, pleasure and learning which animates the average Gothic villain or Byronic hero (essentially cognate types), is lured by an evil genius to seek the subterranean throne of the mighty and fabulous pre-Adamite sultans in the fiery halls of Eblis, the Mahometan Devil.