Byronic 的詞源

1823年，指的是英國詩人喬治·戈登，第六代 Byron 巴倫爵士（1788-1824）或他的詩歌之類的特徵或相似之處。

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"]

她完美無瑕，可世界這惡劣

  我們凡人無法領悟其中悅耳之音

我們始祖豈懂何爲親吻？

  直到被驅逐，離開了先前的樂土。

那裏和平、無邪，福佑全球

  （我不知道12個鐘頭都幹了什麼）

唐·何塞像亞當的子孫一樣

  在未經允許的情況下摘了各種水果。

[選自《唐·卷》]

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]

拜倫在歐洲影響深遠，而他的靈魂傳人並不在英格蘭。對我們大多數人來說，他的詩常常顯得平庸，他的情感則顯得俗套。但在國外，他的感覺方式和人生觀被傳承、發展和轉化，直至成爲影響偉大事件的因素。[伯特蘭·羅塞爾，《西方哲學史》,1945年]