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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.