Chaucer, John Donne, and "The Flea": A "Robertsonian" Perspective.

Author / Editor
Evans, Robert C.

Title
Chaucer, John Donne, and "The Flea": A "Robertsonian" Perspective.

Published
James M. Dean, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer (Ipswich, Mass., Salem Press), pp. 144-58.

Description
Proposes viewing Donne's poem "The Flea" from the theoretical perspective of D. W. Robertson, and argues that "if we read Donne's poem as Robertson reads Chaucer, a different kind of Donne emerges" than previously shown by scholars.

Alternative Title
Geoffrey Chaucer: Critical Insights Series.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion