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Definition of Byron
1. Noun. English romantic poet notorious for his rebellious and unconventional lifestyle (1788-1824).
Definition of Byron
1. Proper noun. (surname from=Old English) ¹
2. Proper noun. George Gordon (Noel) Byron, 6th Baron Byron (January 22, 1788–April 19, 1824), a famous English poet and leading figure in romanticism. ¹
3. Proper noun. (surnames male given name) transferred from the surname, of mostly American usage. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Byron
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1886)
"Byron had many discussions with him. Stanhope produced Bentham's ' Springs of
Action ' as a new pub- lication, when Byron 'stamped with his lame foot,' and ..."
2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Had I foreseen events, I should have communicated with Lord Byron during his ...
He tenaciously clung to the belief that Byron had committed the larceny. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1870)
"LORD Byron AND HIS CALUMNIATORS. IN July last we laid before our readers all that
was then publicly known with regard to the unhappy circumstances which led ..."
4. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1858)
"Landscape Illustrations to the Life and Works of Lord Byron, by Finden, ...
Les Dames de Byron, or Portraits of the principal Female characters in Lord ..."
5. The Bookman (1897)
"$1.75. ly, if we are to understand Byron, we must understand his milieu, ...
Byron and his coevals may remind one of the Duke of Wharton and his. ..."
6. Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (1906)
"XX Byron: THE REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT AFTER visiting the battle-field of Waterloo,
Byron went, by way of the Rhine, to Switzerland, where he spent several ..."
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