Le Roman de la Rose, an allegorical dream-vision, written in two parts by two authors 1230-75. Guillaume de Lorris (d. 1237) composed the first 4058 lines to present 'the whole art of love'. Jean de Meun added another 17,622 lines expounding the topic in social, moral and philosophical perspectives. One third of the poem was translated into Middle English as The Romaunt of the Rose probably by Geoffrey Chaucer.

The rose is the allegorical representation of a lady's love whom the dreamer meets inside a walled garden ruled by the God of Love. Throughout the poem nearly all aspects of courtly and philosophical love are presented in the form of personified allegories. The text is one of the most influential works in the Middle Ages setting the pattern of the dream-vision form and allegorical conventions. (Cf. The Romance of the Rose, transl. by Charles Dahlberg. London 1971).