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      • A lengthy allegorical love poem, the Rose was written in the thirteenth century, and is the work of two authors. It was begun in around 1230 by Guillaume de Lorris, who wrote the first 4000 lines, and then continued some forty years later by Jean de Meun, who added a further 18000 lines.
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  2. The Romance of the Rose was written in two stages by two authors. In the first stage of composition, circa 1230, Guillaume de Lorris wrote 4,058 verses describing a courtier's attempts at wooing his beloved woman.

  3. 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.

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  4. 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 ...

  5. After his death, the majority of his personal library was bought in 1922 by the National Library. It contained over six thousand items, including 40 medieval manuscripts, manuscripts relating to Sussex, personal notebooks and more than one copy of the early French text, Roman de la rose.

  6. Sep 19, 2018 · The ‘Romance of the Rose’, a medieval French poem that takes the form of an allegorical dream vision, was written by two successive authors: Guillaume de Lorris in the late 1230s, and Jean de Meun, who completed it almost forty years later.

  7. Composed in the 13th century, The Romance of the Rose created by Guillaume de Lorris and continued, and completed, by Jean de Meung, is the finest poetic achievement of the French High Medieval period.

  8. The 'roman de la rose' was written in two parts: the first by Guillaume de Lorris around 1230, focusing on the theme of love, and the second by Jean de Meun in the late 13th century, which expanded on philosophical themes.

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