Jean de Meun and Dafydd ap Gwilym
- Author / Editor
- Breeze, Andrew.
Jean de Meun and Dafydd ap Gwilym
- Published
- National Library of Wales Journal 34 (2008): 311-21.
- Description
- Like Chaucer, the fourteenth-century Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwilym borrowed from Jean de Meun, using "Le Roman de la Rose" as the source for "Y Gwynt" ('The Wind'). Breeze notes sixteen motifs common to both poems and contrasts the Welsh poet's method of imitation with Chaucer's preference for direct translation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.