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GUILLAUME DE LORRIS (fl. 1230)

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 692 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GUI-HAN
GUILLAUME DE LORRIS (fl. 1230) , the author of the earlier
section
  of the Roman de la rose, derives his surname from a small town about equidistant from Montargis and Gien, in the present department of Loiret. This and the fact of his authorship may be said to be the only things positively known about him. The rubric of the poem, where his own
part
  finishes, attributes
Jean
  de Meun's continuation to a period
forty
  years later than William's death and the consequent interruption of the romance. Arguing backwards, this death used to be put at about 126o; but
Jean
  de Meun's own
work
  has recently been dated earlier, and so the composition of the first
part
  has been thrown back to a period before 1240. The author represents himself as having dreamed the dream which furnished the substance of the poem in his twentieth year, and as having set to
work
  to " rhyme it " five years later. The later and longer part of the Roman shows signs of greater intellectual vigour and wider knowledge than the earlier and shorter, but Guillaume de Lorris is to all
appearance
  more
original
 . The
great
  features of his four or five thousand lines are, in the first place, the extraordinary vividness and beauty of his word-pictures, in which for colour, freshness and individuality he has not many rivals except in the greatest masters, and, secondly, the fashion of allegorical presentation, which, hackneyed and wearisome as it afterwards became, was evidently in his time new and striking. There are of course traces of it before, as in some romances, such as those of Raoul de Houdenc, in the troubadours, and in other writers; but it was unquestionably Guillaume de Lorris who fixed the style.
For an attempt to identify Guillaume de Lorris see L. Jarry, Guillaume de Lorris et le testament d'Alphonse de Poitiers (1881). Also Paulin Paris in the Hist. lift. de la France, vol. xxiii.


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