See also:GUILLAUME DE LORRIS (fl. 1230)
, the author of the earlier See also:section of the See also:Roman de la See also:rose, derives his surname from a small See also:town about equidistant from See also:Montargis and See also:Gien, in the See also:present See also:department of Loiret
.
This and the fact of his authorship may be said to be the only things positively known about him
.
The See also:rubric of the poem, where his own See also:part finishes, attributes See also:Jean de Meun's continuation to a See also:period See also:forty years later than See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William's See also:death and the consequent interruption of the See also:romance
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Arguing backwards, this death used to be put at about 126o; but Jean de Meun's own See also:work has recently been dated earlier, and so the See also:composition of the first part has been thrown back to a period before 1240
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The author represents himself as having dreamed the See also:dream which furnished the substance of the poem in his twentieth See also:year, and as having set to work to " See also:rhyme it " five years later
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The later and longer part of the Roman shows signs of greater intellectual vigour and wider knowledge than the earlier and shorter, but See also:Guillaume de Lorris is to all See also:appearance more See also:original
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The See also:great features of his four or five thousand lines are, in the first See also:place, the extraordinary vividness and beauty of his word-pictures, in which for See also:colour, freshness and individuality he has not many rivals except in the greatest masters, and, secondly, the See also:fashion of allegorical presentation, which, hackneyed and wearisome as it afterwards became, was evidently in his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time new and striking
.
There are of course traces of it before, as in some romances, such as those of Raoul de See also:Houdenc, in the troubadours, and in other writers; but it was unquestionably Guillaume de Lorris who fixed the See also:style
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For an See also:attempt to identify Guillaume de Lorris see L
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See also:Jarry, Guillaume de Lorris et le testament d'See also:Alphonse de See also:Poitiers (1881)
.
Also Paulin See also:Paris in the Hist. lift. de la See also:France, vol. See also:xxiii
.
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