La Morte Amoureuse Analyse Romuald

ballade, which allowed 26 THE MIDDLE AGES poetry to become more personal and poets to be more than names. Froissart wrote a quantity of courtly verse which recycled myth, moral digression and love debate, though his allegorical Espinette amoureuse (1369) is cast in an autobiographical mode. But a new level of pathos was reached in Le Voir dit (1364) by the prolific poet and musician, Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300–77), which projects the image of an ageing poet clinging desperately to love. Machaut’s