ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -La Roman de la Rose was begun by Guillaume de Lorris in 1237 as an allegory of the art of courtly love, but it was left incomplete at line 4058. The poem was winding down but presumably Guillaume died before finishing it.

Detailed explanation-2: -Roman de la rose, (French: “Romance of the 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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Roman de la Rose is the work of two authors. Begun by Guillaume de Lorris around 1230 and continued by Jean de Meun approximately forty years later, the Rose is probably the most influential work written in the Old French vernacular.

Detailed explanation-4: -"Le Roman” enabled Chaucer to introduce a “stylish wit and literary manner” to his English audience and then to claim these attributes as his own. The Romaunt is written in octosyllabic, iambic tetrameter couplets in the same meter as le Roman.

Detailed explanation-5: -Begun by Guillaume de Lorris between 1225 and 1230, the Old French Romance of the Rose, an allegory in rhymed octosyllabic couplets, was continued as an often satiric encyclopedic gloss by Jean de Meun (or Meung) around 1275. The hybrid text is an important and influential vernacular work of the European Middle Ages.