A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde
by Lavinia Greenlaw
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"Lavinia Greenlaw's pinpoint retelling is neither a translation nor a version but something new. She has drawn out the story's psychological drama through a process of detonation or amplification of image and phrase into original poems"--Jacket.Tags
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Gorgeous telling of the Chaucer's story of Troilus and Criseyde, pared down to the essentials and all the more beautiful for it. Gets to the heart of the eternal themes of obsession, pursuit, and separation that have made this story connect with us through the centuries.
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Lavinia Greenlaw is the award-winning author of two collections of poetry. Her work has appeared in the "Times Literary Supplement", "The New Yorker", the "Paris Review", & other periodicals, & she was a fellow in writing at Amherst College in Massachusetts in 1995. She lives in London. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Canonical title
- A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde
- Alternate titles
- A Double Sorrow
- Original publication date
- 2014
- People/Characters
- Troilus; Criseyde; Hector
- Important places
- Troy
- Important events
- Trojan War
- Dedication
- Go, litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye
V. 1786 - First words
- A sad story is sad to tell
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)A field where men weep
And he laughs.
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
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