Byronic
means belonging to or derived from Lord Byron (1788-1824) or his works. The
Byronic hero is a character-type found in his celebrated narrative poem Childe
Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-18), his verse drama Manfred (1817), and other works;
he is a boldly defiant but bitterly self-tormenting outcast, proudly
contemptuous of social norms but suffering for some unnamed sin.