“Pyroscaphe” as well as the other book of the same author “The medicine for Fate. Poets at Henry the XVIII, Elizabeth the First, and King James court” is the mix of verses and clauses telling about the life and creative work of English poets of the whole century. The book covers the period of romanticism (from William Wordsworth up to John Keats) and the next Victorian epoch (from Alfred Lord Tennyson up to Joseph Rudyard Kipling), the longest reign in the history of England.
How could not “the Iron Age” which had covered the Earth with spider's web of rails, conquered all the seas and oceans by its smoking steamships (“pyroscaphes”), manage to override the imagination of “golden kingdoms”? This rhetorical question is answered by the verses.