Analyse Le Vent Verhaeren

courtly love and showed allegory interacting with a distinctive personality dominated by nostalgia and melancholy. Although he said little that was new, his more intimate manner, plainer vocabulary, subtler shifts in register and silky rhythms (‘Le vent a laissé son manteau . . .’) raised interest in poetic form and related poetry to a wider range of human experience. But courtly modes also came under attack from less well-born quarters. By 1400, theatre, prose and verse, less idealistic now and more