Among other elements, Ann Radcliffe also introduced the brooding figure of the Gothic villain, which developed into the Byronic hero.

The poetry, romantic adventures and character of Lord Byron, characterised by his spurned lover Lady Caroline Lamb as ' mad, bad and dangerous to know ' were another inspiration for the Gothic, providing the archetype of the Byronic hero.

A late example of traditional Gothic is Melmoth the Wanderer ( 1820 ) by Charles Maturin which combines themes of Anti-Catholicism with an outcast Byronic hero ( Varma 1986 ).

Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights ( 1847 ) transports the Gothic to the forbidding Yorkshire Moors and features ghostly apparitions and a Byronic hero in the person of the demonic Heathcliff while Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre ( 1847 ) adds The Madwoman in the Attic ( Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar 1979 ) to the cast of Gothic fiction.

The Byronic hero, in particular, was a key precursor to the male goth image, while Dracula's iconic portrayal by Bela Lugosi appealed powerfully to early goths.

* Byronic hero

Heathcliff is typically considered a Byronic hero, but critics have found his character, with a capacity for self-invention, to be profoundly difficult to assess.

* Byronic hero, a fictional character type exemplified by Lord Byron

Antony ( 1831 )— a drama with a contemporary Byronic hero — is considered the first non-historical Romantic drama.

The book was notable for featuring the first version of the Byronic hero outside of Byron's own work as well as a detailed scrutiny of the Romantic Period and, more specifically, the Ton.

Later novelist Ann Radcliffe introduced the brooding figure of the Gothic villain which developed into the Byronic hero.

The Byronic hero also sets a literary precedent for the modern concept of antiheroism.

A rare exception to this is the epic poem Cœur de Lion ( 1822 ), by Eleanor Anne Porden, in which he is depicted as a tragic Byronic hero.

Branwell's Charlotte Zamorna, one of the heroes of Verdopolis, towards increasingly ambiguous behaviour, and the same influence and evolution recur with Emily Brontë, especially in the characters of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, and Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre, who display the traits of a Byronic hero.

Guts is a Byronic hero who is able to struggle against causality, but seemingly unable to overcome it.

He is modeled on the Byronic hero.

The Byronic hero is a variant of the Romantic hero as a type of character, named after the English Romantic poet Lord Byron.

The Byronic hero first appears in Byron's semi-autobiographical epic narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage ( 1812 – 1818 ), and was described by the historian and critic Lord Macaulay as " a man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his heart, a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection ".

After Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, the Byronic hero made an appearance in many of Byron's other works, including his series of poems on Oriental themes: The Giaour ( 1813 ), The Corsair ( 1814 ) and Lara ( 1814 ); and his closet play Manfred ( 1817 ).

Scholars have also drawn parallels between the Byronic hero and the solipsist heroes of Russian literature.

The same character themes continued to influence Russian literature, particularly after Mikhail Lermontov invigorated the Byronic hero through the character Pechorin in his 1839 novel A Hero of Our Time.

The Byronic hero is also featured in many contemporary novels, and it is clear that Byron's work continues to influence modern literature as the precursor of a commonly-encountered type of antihero.

The Byronic hero typically exhibits several of the following traits:

< big > NOTE :</ big > Critics pay much attention to Radcliffe's villains, such as Schedoni, who influenced the Byronic characters of Victorian literature.

The fact that Renko is described as having this syndrome may be one of the factors to believe he is a Byronic hero.

Du Maurier's work inspired a substantial body of ' Female Gothics ,' concerning heroines alternately swooning over or being terrified by scowling Byronic men in possession of acres of prime real estate and the appertaining droit de seigneur.

Mr. Neville ( Anthony Higgins ), a young and arrogant artist and something of a Byronic hero, is contracted to produce a series of 12 landscape drawings of an estate by Mrs. Virginia Herbert ( Janet Suzman ) for her absent and estranged husband.

Though capable of redemption ( as evidenced by his care-taking of his sister and various small charitable acts shown throughout the manga ) ultimately Narushima is a Byronic hero spiraling into darkness, his chances at reform slowly ebbing away as he gives in to more and more of his depraved and brutal tendencies.

The Onegin stanza is also used in the verse novel Equinox by Australian writer Matthew Rubinstein, serialized daily in the Sydney Morning Herald and currently awaiting publication ; in the biography in verse Richard Burgin by Diana Burgin ; in the verse novel Jack the Lady Killer by HRF Keating ( title borrowed from a line in Golden Gate in Onegin stanza rhymes but not always preserving the metric pattern ); and in several poems by Australian poet Gwen Harwood, for instance the first part of " Class of 1927 " and " Sea Eagle " ( the first employs a humorous Byronic tone, but the second adapts the stanza to a spare lyrical mood, which is good evidence of the form's versatility ).

Rochester is the Byronic anti-hero who is tortured and tormented by family troubles, past injustices and secrets.

* Byronic Thoughts: Maxims Reflections Portraits From the Prose and Verse of Lord Byron ( 1961 )

Byron, however, additionally took up the theme of a " Satanic " school and developed the " Byronic hero " ( not to be confused with Samuel Taylor Coleridge's " Satanic Hero ") who would, like Satan in Paradise Lost, be a tragic figure who is admirable even when wrong.

The poem manifests a number of typical Byronic qualities: it is digressive in its structure, for example, and it takes satiric jabs at targets familiar to readers of Byron, such as literary women and other poets ( including Robert Southey, who appears as " Botherby ").

The concert opened with another big romantic score, Schumann's Overture to `` Manfred '', which suffered fate, this time with orchestral thrusts to the Byronic point to keep it afloat.

Certain of the characteristic subjects of the decadents represent naturalist interest in sexuality and taboo topics, but in their case this was mixed with Byronic romanticism and the world-weariness characteristic of the fin de siècle period.

In fact, Clarke's novel maps the literary history of the early nineteenth century: the novel begins with the style and genres of Regency England, an " Austenian world of light, bright, sparkling dialogue and well-mannered gentility ", and gradually transforms into a dark, Byronic tale.

The naturalist tendency to see life without illusions and to dwell on its more depressing and sordid aspects appears in an intensified degree in the immensely influential poetry of Charles Baudelaire, but with profoundly romantic elements derived from the Byronic myth of the anti-hero and the romantic poet

Danby painted " vast illusionist canvases " comparable to those of John Martin — of " grand, gloomy and fantastic subjects which chimed exactly with the Byronic taste of the 1820s.

The naturalist tendency to see life without illusions and to dwell on its more depressing and sordid aspects appears in an intensified degree in the immensely influential poetry of Charles Baudelaire, but with profoundly romantic elements derived from the Byronic myth of the anti-hero and the romantic poet, and the world-weariness of the " mal du siècle ", etc.

In 1931, Hayek's Prices and Production had enjoyed an ultra-short Byronic success.

This latter story revives Lamb's Byronic ' Lord Ruthven ', but this time as a vampire.

The influence of Byronic Romanticism evident in Poe is also apparent in the work of the Brontë sisters.

From 1833, Charlotte and Branwell's Angrian tales begin to feature Byronic heroes who have a strong sexual magnetism and passionate spirit, and demonstrate arrogance and even black-heartedness.

Other notable villains included the Byronic master thief Zenith the Albino ( who had crimson eyes ), Dr Huxton Rymer, Leon Kestrel and The Master Mummer.

Claude Frollo from Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1831 ), Heathcliff from Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Edmond Dantes from Alexandre Dumas ' The Count of Monte Cristo ( 1844 ), and Rochester from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre ( 1847 ) are other later 19th-century examples of Byronic heroes.