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Winning the Rose, a Commentary by A. S. Kline. 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. This Commentary explains the structure of the work, and the intentions behind it, and considers ...
(Le Roman de la Rose) Guillaume de Lorris A Translation into English by A. S. Kline With illuminations, courtesy of the British Library, from an edition dated c.1490–c.1500, originating from Bruges, the Netherlands. Prepared for Engelbert II, count of Nassau and Vianden (d. 1504). www.poetryintranslation.com
Doth bear the banner of Courtesy, And his manner is, as you see, So sweet, so gentle and so free, That whoever is sworn to be. His servant, and do him honour, In them none shall e’er discover. Aught of cruel thoughts, or errors, Or folk’s thousand ill endeavours.’. The End of Part II of the Romance of the Rose.
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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. In the quest to pick the Rose (to achieve the conquest of ...
Roman de la Rose. 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.
I. All references to the Old French text of the Romance of the Rose are to the line number of: Félix Lecoy, ed., Le Roman de la Rose, (Paris: Champion, 1974); all refer- ences to the English translation are to Frances Horgan, trans. The Romance of the Rose, (Oxford: Oxford World's Classics, 1994).
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 lines except his name, Guillaume de Lorris ...
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