An allegorical mirror: the pool of Narcissus in Guillaume de Lorris' Romance of the Rose. The Romanic Review | November 1, 2000| | COPYRIGHT 2000 Columbia University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Borrowing from the allegorical tradition of dream narratives the figure of the cheminement, the Romance of the Rose stages an "I" who from the very beginning of the dream walks. This walk is no aimless wandering. The "I" in the dream (a persona to which I shall refer for the sake of convenience as the "Lover") is indeed beckoned, without his knowledge, toward the pool of Narcissus that the Romance of the Rose excises from the narrative to which it apparently belongs, Ovid's Metamorphoses, in order to graft it at the very core of its own oneiric space. While the Ovidian pool ...

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