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Haroldian
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English
Etymology
From en Harold ian.
Adjective
Of or relating to Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a lengthy narrative poem published between 1812 and 1818.
en 2004 Richard Andrew Cardwell The Reception of Byron in Europe: Southern Europe, France, and Romania 252 One could assume that the three poems that Heine had translated influenced him the most of all from among Byron's writings. And, indeed, the Book of Songs is full of Haroldian echoes.
en 2012 Caroline Franklin The Female Romantics: Nineteenth-century Women Novelists and Byronism 51 But the way that the Haroldian allusion to Byron's recent exile of 1816 is superimposed upon this, gives a particular significance to the father character
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