HISTORY OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES OF THE ANTIENTS. Tr. 1734.
METHOD OF TEACHING AND STUDYING THE BELLES LETTRES. 4 v. 1734. Tr. 1740.
ROMANCE OF THE ROSE. By Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung.
THE ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE. Ed. by Dr. Max Kaluza. [From the Glasgow MS. Published by the Chaucer Soc. The first 1704 lines are probably Chaucer's.] 1890.
[This was translated by Chaucer and some of his predecessors, and the MS. of part of it is in existence.]
Chaucer and Gower borrowed freely from the 'Roman de la Rose'. This romance was familiar in both France and England before Chaucer's time. Wace and Benoît de Sainte-More written by Anglo-Normans.
It was the reading of this work that influenced the first efforts of Chaucer. During the epoch which is called the Chaucerian, authors known and nameless used the stock of mediaeval France as freely and as monotonously as the French themselves.
RONSARD, PIERRE DE. b. 1524, d. 1585. Eminent French poet.
Some translations from Ronsard will be found in 'Ronsard and La Pléiade', by G. Wyndham, 1906.