'Daisy Miller' and Chaucer's 'Daisy' Poem: The Prologue to the Legend of Good Women

Author / Editor
Tintner, Adeline R.

Title
'Daisy Miller' and Chaucer's 'Daisy' Poem: The Prologue to the Legend of Good Women

Published
Henry James Review 15 (1994): 10-23.

Description
Daisy Miller was modelled on "another martyr to love": Alceste of LGWP. Tintner documents James's familiarity with Chaucer and his imitations of Chaucerian diction. She reads Daisy as an inexpert, desperate lover similar to the victims of love in LGW.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Legend of Good Women.