Militant British Romantics?

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What would it take for the Romantics of the British Radical movement in the first half of the 19th century to become militant? They don't have to take the streets with arms, violent conspiracies are just fine. Think "Percy Shelley bomb plot" motif.

Bonus points if it bleeds over into the American Transcendentalist (or a ATL equivalent) and turns them into violent subversives as well.
 
We were having thoughts in a similar direction a while ago:

We noted that just before the Great Reform Act, the country was seething with discontent in a way pretty much unhear of since, with organised workers taking to the streets, the liberal middle-classes organising a run on the Bank of England, and the Swing Riots still fresh in people's minds.

In OTL, Gray outmanouvred the Wellingtonian reactionaries with the quiet agreement of King William IV, disaster was averted, and British political history was set on its modern course, but over the preceding decades Britain had been a country were political imprisonment and exile, bomb-plots, censorship, etcetera was all part of everyday political life.

Our monarch at the time was the supremely ineffective George IV, but what if we had had, after George III, some organised, intelligent, ideological reactionist in the mould of Nicholas I or Russia or Charles X of France, who had sided thoroughly with the Ultra-Tories to impose a reactionary regime?

It seems likley that he would have met the same end as Charles X, running up against increasingly feverish liberal agitation harnessed to working-class discontent. Barricades could quite conceivably go up.

The intellectual leadership of such a revolt would undoudtebly have sucked up a lot of ideas from Shelley etcetera. I'm afraid I don't know much about transcendentalism, but I have wondered whether there might be consequences for America if Britain's new Radical government followed the French revolutionary lead in abolishing slavery immediately without compensation.
 
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