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Byronize
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English
Etymology
From en Byron ize.
Verb
To make something, or someone, more Byronic
en 2016-02-02 N. Sweet; J. Melnyk Felicia Hemans: Reimagining Poetry in the Nineteenth Century Springer 9780230389564 172 (17–20) No longer trying to Byronize her heroines only to discover that female commitments alienate them from the romance of Byronic alienation, Hemans makes Byron accountable to her values. Recasting Childe Harold is a recurring
en 1993 Jerome Christensen Lord Byron's Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society JHU Press 9780801843563 124 Seeing as Conrad sees, the Critical Review neatly Byronizes: “A figure approaches — it is Gulnare. A spot of blood is all eloquence. The deed is done” (RR B:2:634). The first impulse of signification is to imagine the
en 2017-09-08 Peter Viereck Strict Wildness: Discoveries in Poetry and History Routledge 9781351487863 What makes it so painful to predict his future candidly is the fact that this Russian Byronizing tradition has an undercurrent of unconscious self-destructiveness, constantly oscillating between would-be folk hero and would-be martyr,
To look at the world as if one were a Byronic character
en 2019-06-03 Henryk Sienkiewicz The Greatest Works of Henryk Sienkiewicz: Quo Vadis, In Desert and Wilderness, With Fire and Sword, The Deluge, Pan Michael, Children of the Soil, On the Field of Glory, Whirlpools, Without Dogma, In Vain e-artnow My dear, I remember men who Byronized themselves to death. I have seen much; I have seen men who, for example, took a fancy to peasants, and ended with drinking vodka in peasant dramshops. There is no measure with us, and there cannot
Translations
to look at the world as if one were a Byronic character
Polish: pl bajronizować impf