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Guillaume de Lorris's - The Romance of the Rose (Le Roman de la Rose) in a new, complete, downloadable English translation.
Le Roman de la Rose est une œuvre poétique française médiévale de 21 780 vers octosyllabiques sous la forme d’un rêve allégorique. Il a été écrit en deux temps : Guillaume de Lorris écrivit la première partie (4 058 vers) entre 1230 et 1235, puis l’ouvrage fut repris et complété par Jean de Meung (17 722 vers).
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Introduction. ‘The Author’. Jean de Meung (c1240-c1305) wrote a long continuation (dated to between 1268 and 1285 by internal references) to this, the original Roman de la Rose. Jean claimed that it had been conceived by Guillaume de Lorris (c1200?-c1240?) some forty years earlier.
Parmi les traductions ou imitations qui ont été faites, à l’étranger, de cette œuvre française, il ne faut pas oublier le Roman de la Rose en anglais, de Chaucer, ni la Confessio amantis de Gower.
The Romaunt of the Rose (The Romaunt) is a partial translation into Middle English of the French allegorical poem, Le Roman de la Rose (Le Roman). Originally believed to be the work of Chaucer, the Romaunt inspired controversy among 19th-century scholars when parts of the text were found to differ in style from Chaucer's other works. Also the ...
Roman de la rose, one of the most popular French poems of the later Middle Ages. Modeled on Ovid’s Ars amatoria (c. 1 bc; Art of Love), the poem is composed of more than 21,000 lines of octosyllabic couplets and survives in more than 300 manuscripts. Little is known of the author of the first 4,058.
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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.
