Etimología y Historia de Byronic

1823, relacionado con, característico de, o que se asemeja al poeta británico George Gordon, 6.º Barón Byron (1788-1824) o su poesía.

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"]

Perfecta era, pero como la perfección es

 Insípida en este mundo travieso nuestro,

Donde nuestros primeros padres nunca aprendieron a besar

 Hasta que fueron desterrados de sus primeros jardines,

Donde todo era paz, inocencia y dicha

 (Me pregunto cómo pasaron las doce horas),

Don José, como un hijo directo de Eva,

 Iba recogiendo varios frutos sin su permiso.

[de "Don Juan"]

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]

Fue en el continente donde Byron tuvo influencia, y no en Inglaterra donde se debe buscar su legado espiritual. Para muchos de nosotros, su verso a menudo parece pobre y su sentimiento a menudo superficial, pero en el extranjero su forma de sentir y su perspectiva de la vida fueron transmitidos, desarrollados y transformados hasta convertirse en elementos tan extendidos que influyeron en grandes acontecimientos. [Bertrand Russell, "A History of Western Philosophy," 1945]