Romantic Poetry and the Fragmentary Imperative

Uses the concept of the poetic fragment to draw connections between romantic poetry and modern literature and literary theory. Romantic Poetry and the Fragmentary Imperative locates Byron (and, to a lesser extent, Joyce) within a genealogy of romantic poetry understood not so much as imaginative self-expression or ideological case study but rather as what the German romantics call "romantische poesie"-an experimental form of poetry loosely based on the fragmentary flexibility and acute critical