Byronic 的词源

1823年，指与英国诗人乔治·戈登，第六代拜伦勋爵Byron（1788-1824年）相关、具有其特征或风格的事物。

Perfect she was, but as perfection is

 Insipid in this naughty world of ours,

Where our first parents never learn'd to kiss

 Till they were exiled from their earlier bowers,

Where all was peace, and innocence, and bliss

 (I wonder how they got through the twelve hours),

Don Jose like a lineal son of Eve,

 Went plucking various fruit without her leave.

[from "Don Juan"]

她是完美的，但完美在这世俗的世界里

 显得乏味，

在这里，我们的始祖父母直到被驱逐出乐园

 才学会亲吻，

那里一切都是和平、纯真和幸福

 （我真想知道他们是怎么熬过那十二个小时的），

唐·何塞像亚当的直系后裔，

 在没有她允许的情况下采摘各种果实。

[摘自《唐璜》]

It was on the Continent that Byron was influential, and it is not in England that his spiritual progeny is to be sought. To most of us, his verse seems often poor and his sentiment often tawdry, but abroad his way of feeling and his outlook on life were transmitted and developed and transmuted until they became so wide-spread as to be factors in great events. [Bertrand Russell, "A History of Western Philosophy," 1945]

拜伦的影响主要是在欧洲大陆，而不是在英国。对我们大多数人来说，他的诗歌常常显得平庸，情感也显得庸俗，但在国外，他的情感和生活观被传播、发展并转化，直到成为重大事件的推动力。[伯特兰·罗素，《西方哲学史》，1945年]