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Balloons, Romantics and Beyond,e popularity of fictive Romantic heroes such as those to be found in Byron’s verse-tales. These figures are complemented by the new aeronauts whose exploits kept alive the idea of individuals as free agents capable of achieving what had long been thought impossible. The chapter explores Romantic ind

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Conclusion,een discussed, it was loaded with symbolism and contradiction. On the one hand it could remind a contemporary poet of the creation and shape of Milton’s Pandemonium, with shared implications of moral degeneracy, hubris and destructive political Jacobinism. On the other, to social meliorists like Wor

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Book 2022een a curious and long-time tendency to forget that flight was not impossible during this period. This study details the importance of this new technology to Romantic authors, primarily English Romantic poets. It combines accounts of the exploits and experiences of early balloonists with references

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Introduction,terature of early flight displays much of important significance for the Romantic period, its poetry, fiction and non-fictional prose. The book’s first chapter reminds us that flight was not an impossibility at this time and reveals how the literature of Romanticism, when critically revisited in the

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New Prospects,appropriate metaphor for Wordsworth who describes his quest for a new poetics as an enterprise similar in its adventurism to that of the contemporary balloonist ‘aloft ascending’. The subject of the ‘Prospectus’ is freedom and the programme it outlines is to give man control over his own destiny. Th

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A Federation of the World,make realisable what Tennyson calls ‘a federation of the world’. The chapter also examines the potential that the balloon held for disruption to time-honoured organic communities as well as the role it was envisaged as playing in opening up a global democracy through speed of communication and throu

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Later Romantics: Keats and Shelley,allooning, beginning with his experiments in schooldays and continuing through to the years of his maturity where he constructed small balloons of his own as agents to deploy political propaganda. The importance of Coleridge’s influence on Shelley and balloons has a section to itself. The chapter co