English Writers, Vol. 1 of 2

Excerpt from English Writers, Vol. 1 of 2: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature "Le Roman de la Rose" was the fashionable book at the English Court in the beginning of the fourteenth century. Guillaume de Lorris, in the earlier half of the thirteenth century, had expanded the love-fancies of the troubadour into a long allegorical dream of the experiences of the lover. He represented Beauty as the Rose, the gathering of the Rose as the fruition of Love, and the passions that attend on Love as persons of his drama. Guillaume de Lorris died leaving his work unfinished. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.