Roman de la Rose - wikipedia Roman de la Rose For the poem by Jean Renart named Romans de la Rose in the manuscript, see Guillaume de Dole. Mirth and Gladness lead a Dance in this miniature from a manuscript of the Roman de la Rose in the Bodleian Library ( MS Douce 364, folio 8r ). The Roman de la Rose ( Romance of the Rose ), is a medieval French poem styled as an allegorical dream vision. It is a notable instance of courtly literature. The work 's stated purpose is to both entertain and to teach others about the Art of Love. At various times in the poem, the `` Rose '' of the title is seen as the name of the lady, and as a symbol of female sexuality in general. Likewise, the other characters ' names function both as regular names and as abstractions illustrating the various factors that are involved in a love affair. The poem was written in two stages. The first 4,058 lines, written by Guillaume de Lorris circa 1230, describe the attempts of a courtier to woo his beloved. This part of the story is set in a walled garden or locus amoenus, one of the traditional topoi of epic and chivalric literature. Around 1275, Jean de Meun composed an additional 17,724 lines. In this enormous coda, allegorical personages ( Reason, Genius, and so on ) hold forth on love. Contents 1 Reception 1.1 Early 1.2 Modern 2 Manuscripts and incunabula 3 Translation and influence 4 Gallery 5 Editions 6 English translations 7 See also 8 Notes 9 Further reading 10 External links Reception Genius of love, Meister des Rosenromans, 1420 - 1430 Early The work was both popular and controversial. It was one of the most widely read works in France for three centuries, and it was possibly the most read book in Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries. Its emphasis on sensual language and imagery provoked attacks by Jean Gerson, Christine de Pizan and many other writers and moralists of the 14th and 15th centuries. Historian Johan Huizinga writes : `` It is astonishing that the Church, which so rigorously repressed the slightest deviations from dogma of a speculative character, suffered the teaching of this breviary of the aristocracy ( for the Roman de la Rose was nothing else ) to be disseminated with impunity. '' Modern Later reactions suggested that it had a tenuous encyclopedic quality. The nineteenth century scholar and writer Gaston Paris wrote that it was `` an encyclopedia in disorder '' and British author C.S. Lewis described it as having an `` encyclopedic character ''. One historian wrote that while Roman de la Rose is obviously not an encyclopedia, `` it evokes one, represents one, dreams one, perhaps, with all its aspirations and limitations ''. Manuscripts and incunabula Author of a 14th - century copy of Roman de la Rose at his writing desk. NLW MS 5016D About 300 manuscripts are extant, one of the highest figures for a secular work. Many of these are illustrated, most with fewer than ten remaining illustrations, but there are a number with twenty or more illustrations, and the exceptional Burgundian British Library Harley MS 4425 has 92 large and high quality miniatures, despite a date around 1500 ; the text was copied by hand from a printed edition. These are by the artist known as the Master of the Prayer Books of around 1500, commissioned by Count Engelbert II of Nassau The peak period of production was the 14th century, but manuscript versions continued to be produced until the advent of printing, and indeed afterwards - there are at least seven manuscripts dated after 1500. There are also seven incunabula printed editions before 1500, the first from Geneva in about 1481, followed by two from Lyons in the 1480s and four from Paris in the 1490s. An edition from Lyons in 1503 is illustrated with 140 woodcuts. Digital images of more than 140 of these manuscripts are available for study in the Roman de la Rose Digital Library. Translation and influence Part of the story was translated from its original Old French into Middle English as The Romaunt of the Rose, which had a great influence on English literature. Chaucer was familiar with the original French text, and a portion of the Middle English translation is thought to be his work. Critics suggest that the character of `` La Vieille '' acted as source material for Chaucer 's Wife of Bath. There were several other early translations into languages including Middle Dutch ( Heinrik van Aken, c. 1280 ). Il Fiore is a `` reduction '' of the poem into 232 Italian sonnets by a `` ser Durante '', sometimes thought to have been Dante, although this is generally thought unlikely. Dante never mentions the Roman, but is often said to have been highly conscious of it in his own work. In 1900, the pre-Raphaelite F.S. Ellis translated the whole of the poem into English verse. C.S. Lewis 's 1936 study The Allegory of Love renewed interest in the poem. Gallery Miniature from a manuscript of the Roman de la Rose ( Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 195 ), folio 1r, portrait of Guillaume de Lorris. Abélard and Héloïse in a 14th - century manuscript of the Roman de la Rose The God of Love locks the Lover 's heart. f. 15r. b, Roman de la Rose MS NLW 5016D Editions Roman de la Rose ( ed. 1914 ) Langlois, Ernest, ed. Le Roman de la Rose par Guillaume de Lorris et Jean de Meun. 5 vols. Société des Anciens Textes Français. Paris : Firmin Didot, 1914 -- 24. Lecoy, Félix, ed. Le Roman de la Rose par Guillaume de Lorris et Jean de Meun. 3 vols. Classiques français du Moyen Âge. Paris : Champion, 1965 -- 70. Strubel, Armand, ed., trans, and annot. Le Roman de la Rose. Lettres gothiques, 4533. Paris : Librairie Générale Française -- Livre de Poche, 1992. ISBN 2 - 253 - 06079 - 8 English translations Robbins, Harry W., trans. The Romance of the Rose. New York : Dutton, 1962. Dahlberg, Charles, trans. The Romance of the Rose. Princeton : Princeton UP, 1971. ISBN 0 - 691 - 06197 - 1 Horgan, Frances, trans. and annot. The Romance of the Rose. Oxford World 's Classics. Oxford : Oxford UP, 1999. ISBN 0 - 19 - 283948 - 9 See also Ars Amatoria - the ' art of love ' Notes Jump up ^ Clark, Kenneth. `` Civilisation 03 : Romance and Reality ''. YouTube. Retrieved 5 December 2016. Jump up ^ Huizinga, Johann, The Waning of the Middle Ages ( New York : Anchor Books, 1989 ) p. 334 ISBN 0 - 385 - 09288 - 1 Jump up ^ Doody, Aude ( 2010 ). Pliny 's encyclopedia : the reception of the Natural history. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press. p. 186. ISBN 978 - 0 - 511 - 67707 - 6. Jump up ^ Franklin - Brown 2012, p. 214. Jump up ^ Roman de la Rose Digital Library, Project History Jump up ^ Roman de la Rose Digital Library ; not complete Jump up ^ British Library Jump up ^ Roman de la Rose Digital Library Jump up ^ British Library, Incunabula Short Title Catalogue Jump up ^ Rosenwald 917, Library of Congress Further reading Arden, Heather M. The Roman de la Rose : An Annotated Bibliography. New York : Garland, 1993. ISBN 0 - 8240 - 5799 - 6 Gunn, Alan M.F. The Mirror of Love : A Reinterpretation of `` The Romance of the Rose ''. Lubbock, TX : Texas Tech P, 1951. Huot, Sylvia. The Romance of the Rose and Its Medieval Readers : Interpretation, Reception, Manuscript Transmission. Cambridge : Cambridge UP, 1993. ISBN 0 - 521 - 41713 - 9 Kelly, Douglas. Internal Difference and Meanings in the Roman de la rose. Madison, WI : U of Wisconsin P, 1995. ISBN 0 - 299 - 14780 - 0 McWebb, Christine, ed. Debating the Roman de la Rose : A Critical Anthology. Routledge Medieval Texts. New York : Routledge, 2007. ISBN 978 - 0 - 415 - 96765 - 5 Minnis, Alastair. Magister Amoris : The Roman de la Rose and Vernacular Hermeneutics. Oxford : Oxford UP, 2001. ISBN 0 - 19 - 818754 - 8 External links French Wikisource has original text related to this article : Le Roman de la Rose Wikimedia Commons has media related to Roman de la Rose manuscripts. Full text from Project Gutenberg : Vol. 1, Vol. 2 Roman de la Rose Digital Library at Johns Hopkins University 12 Ms on Digital Scriptorium Roman de la rose at Somni Editions from the Library of Congress Le Rommant de la Rose ( Lyons, Guillaume Le Roy, ca. 1487 ) Cest le Romant de la Rose. ( Lyon, Imprime par G. Balsarin, 1503 ) `` Roman de la Rose ''. Encyclopædia Britannica ( 11th ed. ). 1911. 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Question: who translated romance of the rose into english
Answer: F. S. Ellis