Byronicadj.
/bʌɪˈrɒnɪk/, U.S. /baɪˈrɑnɪk/ 1. Characteristic of, or after the manner of Byron or his poetry. Also absol.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by kind of poem > [adjective] > specific poets > specific English, Scottish, or American poets
Chaucerian1660
Miltonian1708
Miltonic1708
Popean1730
Shakespeareana1754
Darwinian1794
Spenseric1795
Wordsworthian1810
Southeyan1817
Spenserian1817
Byronian1822
Byronic1823
Byronish1830
Coleridgian1834
Chattertonian1838
Keatsian1845
Tennysonian1846
Shelleyana1849
Patmorean1855
Rossettian1861
Praedesque1865
Swinburnian1865
Byro nical1871
Browningese1880
Browningesque1880
Patmorial1880
Wordsworthy1880
Browningitec1882
Whitmanesque1882
Thomsonian1890
Burnsian1904
Praedian1905
Blakeian1906
Poundian1917
Thompsonian?1921
Whitmanisha1930
Whitmanian1948
Betjemanic1956
Betjeman1958
Betjemanesque1959
Betjemanish1959
Whitmannica1960
1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 13 511 His Byronic muse procured for him the hand of one of our fair countrywomen.
1830 Diary of Nun II. 35 A Byronic contempt for our fellow creatures.
1856 Chambers's Jrnl. 6 228 A Byronic youth in a turn-down collar.
1875 D. Masson Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, & Other Ess. 35 The Byronic in poetry is, in some respects, the contradictory of the Wordsworthian.
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar viii. 83 No sentimental passion..no Byronic mock heroics.
2. quasi-n. plural [after philippics.] Declamatory utterances or invectives in the style of Byron.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > other types of poem > [noun] > poems in style of specific writer
Byronic1850
Skeltonic1908
Miltonics1928
1850 E. P. Whipple Ess. & Rev. II. 394 Vociferating impotent Byronics against conventional morality.
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adj.1823