Noun: Byronism
- The characteristics of Byron or his poetry, especially romanticism, melancholy, and melodramatic energy
"The Byronism of these passages is of course odd, except that it is a Byronism of desire and not of deed"
- Admiration or emulation of the poet Lord Byron
"Lermontov's Byronism apparently wasn't merely a kinship of contemporarality and random similarity in soul with Byron"
- Imitation of or belief in the ideals and lifestyle of Byron
"Modern Greece was associated with a political Byronism of a certain kind"
Type of: attitude, imitation, literary movement, mental attitude
Encyclopedia: Byronism