Browning's "Childe Roland" and Chaucer's "House of Fame."

Author / Editor
Ruffin, David.

Title
Browning's "Childe Roland" and Chaucer's "House of Fame."

Published
Essays in Honor of Walter Clyde Curry (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1954), pp. 51-60.

Description
Identifies parallels between Browning's "Childe Roland" and HF, evinces Browning's familiarity with Chaucer's poem, and indicates that, thematically, "Roland's quest" represents the "lifelong struggle of a poet in search of lasting fame."

Alternative Title
Essays in Honor of Walter Clyde Curry

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion