<P> Part of the story was translated from its original Old French into Middle English as The Romaunt of the Rose , which had a great influence on English literature . Chaucer was familiar with the original French text , and a portion of the Middle English translation is thought to be his work . Critics suggest that the character of `` La Vieille '' acted as source material for Chaucer 's Wife of Bath . There were several other early translations into languages including Middle Dutch ( Heinrik van Aken , c. 1280 ) . Il Fiore is a `` reduction '' of the poem into 232 Italian sonnets by a `` ser Durante '' , sometimes thought to have been Dante , although this is generally thought unlikely . Dante never mentions the Roman , but is often said to have been highly conscious of it in his own work . In 1900 , the pre-Raphaelite F.S. Ellis translated the whole of the poem into English verse . C.S. Lewis 's 1936 study The Allegory of Love renewed interest in the poem . </P>
<P> Part of the story was translated from its original Old French into Middle English as The Romaunt of the Rose , which had a great influence on English literature . Chaucer was familiar with the original French text , and a portion of the Middle English translation is thought to be his work . Critics suggest that the character of `` La Vieille '' acted as source material for Chaucer 's Wife of Bath . There were several other early translations into languages including Middle Dutch ( Heinrik van Aken , c. 1280 ) . Il Fiore is a `` reduction '' of the poem into 232 Italian sonnets by a `` ser Durante '' , sometimes thought to have been Dante , although this is generally thought unlikely . Dante never mentions the Roman , but is often said to have been highly conscious of it in his own work . In 1900 , the pre-Raphaelite F.S. Ellis translated the whole of the poem into English verse . C.S. Lewis 's 1936 study The Allegory of Love renewed interest in the poem . </P>
who translated romance of the rose into english
who translated romance of the rose into english
F.S. Ellis
F.S. Ellis