Travel Reference
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1792-1822), political radical, sexual explorer (involving Mary
and Claire Clairmont), traveler, and poet. (“O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's
being,.../If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”)
George Gordon,
Lord Byron
(1788-1824), was athletic, exotic, and passionate about
women and freedom. Famous and scandalous in his day, he became a Kerouacian symbol
of the Romantic movement. (“She walks in beauty, like the night/Of cloudless climes and
starry skies...”)
