ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Romance of the Rose, by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, is a thirteenth century French poem. Allegorical in nature, its story is a typically medieval one, the quest of a Lover for the Rose, the object of his quest.

Detailed explanation-2: -The thirteenth-century Romance of the Rose was the most famous and influential dream vision of the Middle Ages. It recounts the dream of a young man who falls in love with and tries to win a Rosebud–the symbol, at various points, of the beloved woman, of her genitalia, and of her virginity.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.