Byronic

• “De Lancie deliberately set out to perform the character as one who was "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," having become well-versed in Byronic lore by playing the poet in a play called "Childe Byron.”

  Immortals and Vampires and Ghosts, Oh My!: Byronic Heroes in Popular Culture

• “Taken as a group, the Turkish Tales obsessively thematize the figure we know as the Byronic hero: a dark, brooding figure with some mysterious tragedy in his past; always alone, even in a crowd, he displays a world-weariness that nevertheless gathers itself into a reluctant heroism at moments of crisis.”

  Byron and Romantic Occidentalism

• “Byron is credited with the invention of this hero, ever since called Byronic; but in truth the melodramatic outcast was a popular character in fiction long before”

  Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived

• “The subjects are frequently tender or sad, sometimes morbid -- in short, Byronic.”

  A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present

• “Significantly it was "Byronic", some 10 years before Byron actually adopted it himself.”

  The Guardian: Thomas Lawrence: The new romantic – review

• “John W. Nowak's Rescue Rangers stories, mainly about Gadget Hackwrench and her "Byronic" sister Widget, are particularly good!”

  Good Fanfic?

• “He seemed a kind of Byronic hero to me, even more in the movie than the book.”

  An Entirely Informal Conversation about Howl's Moving Castle

• “Second, I will argue that the state of marginality, far from being an accident of empirical reception, is both thematized and theorized by Clare's appropriations -- in particular, by the "Byronic" poems in which he reflected on contemporary literary production and the conditions of his own career.”

  Like

• “His metaphysics consists of a somewhat "Byronic" and mystically "malevolent" universe; his epistemology subordinates reason to "will," or feeling or instinct or blood or innate virtues of character.”

  The Fountainhead

• “No matter what the raw material of his narrative poems may be, they become uniformly "Byronic" as he writes them down.”

  A Study of Poetry

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