Guillaume de Lorris

/ ɡijom də lɔris /

noun

Guillaume de Lorris13th century13th centuryMFrenchWRITING: poet 13th century, French poet who wrote the first 4058 lines of the allegorical romance, the Roman de la rose, continued by Jean de Meung

"Guillaume de Lorris's 'Romance of the Rose,'" he answered, more freely.

Guillaume de Lorris built the porch of his cathedral of Love, and placed in the niches tall, long figures of pure and noble mien.

And in Guillaume de Lorris himself, it is difficult to find a word for or against the Church.

Between Guillaume de Lorris and his successor there is a great gulf hardly represented by the forty years of interval.

His imagination is less vivid, and his style less clear, than those of Guillaume de Lorris.

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