The French poet Guillaume de Lorris (ca. 1210-ca. 1237) was the author of the first part of the "Romance of the Rose," the most popular work in medieval French literature. The only place in the Romance of the Rose in which the name of Guillaume de...

(fl. 1220–40). The Roman de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris, a poem of 4,028 lines thought to have been written ca. 1225–40, has always been linked to Jean de Meun’s Roman de la Rose, a poem more than four times the length of...

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Although the two major sections of Le Roman de la rose were written by different authors about forty years apart, the poem begins and ends with mythological incidents which form a frame for its main narrative. (1) Near the beginning of the poem...

Borrowing from the allegorical tradition of dream narratives the figure of the cheminement, the Romance of the Rose stages an "I" who from the very beginning of the dream walks. This walk is no aimless wandering. The "I" in the dream (a persona...