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Le Roman de la Rose (The Romance of the Rose) is a medieval poem written in Old French and presented as an allegorical dream vision. As poetry, The Romance of the Rose is a notable instance of courtly literature, purporting to provide a "mirror of love" in which the whole art of romantic love is disclosed.
Aug 2, 2024 · There can be no doubt that the composite Roman de la rose, an allegorical love poem begun between 1225 and 1245 by an otherwise unknown court poet, Guillaume de Lorris, and completed between 1268 and 1285 by the scholastic author Jean de Meun, was the most admired, influential, and controversial literary work of the French Middle Ages.
The Romance of the Rose describes a young lover’s dream in which allegorical figures like Fair Welcome and Reason help or hinder him in his quest to find the object of his desire—a rose, a symbol for femininity and female sexuality.
Nov 7, 2014 · The Roman de la rose purports to be an account of a prophetic dream that came to its narrator when he was twenty. He enters a wonderful garden, populated by allegorical figures such as Deduit (Delight) and Largece (Generosity).
- Jonathan Morton
- 2015
Jan 28, 2011 · The thirteenth-century French verse Roman de la Rose involves striking new developments in the deployment of various allegorical constructs and procedures, within the context of a self-conscious and innovative expansion of dominant vernacular literary discourses, both lyric and narrative.
- Kevin Brownlee
- 2010
View a digital version of Roman de la Rose (NLW MS 5016D), which is amongst the most beautiful of European literary manuscripts from the middle ages. It contains one of the most popular romantic French poems of its time.
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Le Roman de la Rose, begun by Guillaume de Lorris ca. 1230 and completed, in a different style, ca. 1270-80, by Jean de Meun, builds on the concept of courtly love found in the poetry of the troubadours. The authors create a complex allegory of the romance between the Lover and the Rose.
