A Double Sorrow by Lavinia Greenlaw
Trojan hero Troilus and his beloved Criseyde, whose traitorous father has defected to the Greeks and has persuaded them to ask for his daughter in an exchange of prisoners. In an attempt to save her, Troilus suggests that Criseyde flees the besieged city with him, but she knows that she will be universally condemned.Lavinia Greenlaw was born in London where she has lived for most of her life. She studied seventeenth-century art at the Courtauld Institute, and was awarded a NESTA fellowship to pursue her interest in vision, travel and perception.
Her poetry includes Minsk, which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot, Forward and Whitbread Poetry Prizes. She has also published novels and works of non-fiction which include The Importance of Music to Girls and Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland. She has won a number of prizes and held residencies at the Science Museum and the Royal Society of Medicine.
Her work for BBC radio includes programmes about the Arctic, the Baltic, Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571284542 |
| ISBN 10 | 057128454X |
| Title | A Double Sorrow |
| Author | Lavinia Greenlaw |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2014-03-06 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Costa Poetry Award 2014 |
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