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Illustration to the Ottoman poet Lami’i Celebi’s “Serefu’l-Insan”, a morality in which the animals complain of their ill-treatment by man (detail). Style of Miskin; India, ca. 1590-1620. (via British Museum)
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Illustration to the Ottoman poet Lami’i Celebi’s “Serefu’l-Insan”, a morality in which the animals complain of their ill-treatment by man (detail). Style of Miskin; India, ca. 1590-1620. (via British Museum)

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[bai'ra:-nik] 1. Characteristic of, or after the manner of Byron or his poetry. 2. quasi-n. pl. [after Philippics.] Declamatory utterances or invectives in the style of Byron. 3. Byronic hero: prominent literary character type of the Romantic period, whose characteristics include: extraordinary intelligence and perception; high level of education and intellectual prowess; arrogance; cunning and manipulation; emotional conflictedness; moodiness; self-criticism and introspection; self-destructive behaviour; aesthetic sophistication; dark mysterious beauty; powers of attraction; seductiveness and sexual perversion; world-weariness; distaste for social institutions and norms; disrespect of social ranks; being an outcast, an outlaw, or an exile.


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