Jean Baptiste Chassignet Le Mépris De La Vie Et Consolation Contre La Mort

– though no text was sacrosanct, a finished creation, but an exploitable resource. Any work could be continued, augmented and even buried beneath the weight of new accretions. Le Roman de la Rose was begun by Guillaume Lorris, but became the work of Jean de Meun, who expanded it beyond recognition. By projecting the vision of the rose garden as his own dream, Lorris set an early example of how a narrator might be identified with an author. In the same way, the first person dits which emerged in the late