A Double Sorrow: A Version of Troilus and Criseyde - Hardcover

Greenlaw, Lavinia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393247325 ISBN 13: 9780393247329

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2016

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"In an act of imaginative reconstruction, Greenlaw has filleted the original, lifting telling phrases and key narrative moments and making them her own... [It is] shadowed by the mystery that is the mark of real poetry." -- The Guardian "An admirable and moving addition to [the] new Chaucerian canon." -- Times Literary Supplement "A Double Sorrow is a riveting formal achievement-a reimagining of a great narrative poem as a sequence of lyric moments: glints, surmises, fleeting apprehensions. In Pound's great phrase, Lavinia Greenlaw has made it new, honoring our literary past while enlivening our future." -- James Longenbach

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The captivating love story of ill-fated Troilus and Criseyde, first popularized by Chaucer's poem in the 1380s, is one of the most enduring stories of the English language. In A Double Sorrow, award-winning poet Lavinia Greenlaw breathes fresh life into the medieval tale through a series of seven-line stanzas, which mimic the form of Chaucer's original poem. Set during the siege of Troy, A Double Sorrow is the story of the Trojan hero Troilus and his beloved Criseyde, whose traitorous father defects to the Greeks and persuades them to ask for his daughter in an exchange of prisoners. Troilus suggests that Criseyde flee with him, but she knows she will be universally condemned and instead pretends to submit to the exchange while promising Troilus that she will find a way to return to him within ten days. But once in the company of the Greeks, she soon realizes the impossibility of her promise to Troilus and in despair succumbs to another. In this series of skillfully crafted poetic vignettes, Greenlaw illuminates each small but irrevocable step as these characters argue each other and themselves into and out of love. The result is a breathtaking and shattering read, contemporary and timeless.

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• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0393247325
• ISBN 13: 9780393247329
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240